>From McSweeney’s internet tendency (those who brought you the hilarious lists), comes…
Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)
A favorite excerpt…
The queen is worried about Ophelia.
Ophelia loves flowers. Flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers. Oh, look, a river.
Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Don’t Float.
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I just used a “21st century skill” (teh Googlez, I uses it) to help an anthropologist colleague track down some good starting points on social psychology as it relates to inequality, oppression and resilience. And it reminded me what I often find with my students: the way I use Google is different from the way…
>Google video is putting video from the National Archives online for all to use. Pretty cool idea, except it is a little buggy right now. WWII newsreels, NASA films, and films from the departmet of the Interior are up for the first round. http://video.google.com/nara.html from lifehacker
For new readers, one of the enduring themes of this blog, and of my teaching is that I am a big fan of facts and a doubter of the efficacy of teaching skills (21st century or otherwise). At the same time, I am a nerd, early adopter, and big fan of the internet. Sometimes this…
Attention conservation notice: This post dives into some inside baseball stuff on social psychology, how the science of psychology is practiced, and how science is communicated online. It is kind of long, but I intend it as sort of a reference for this event, but also something to point to for my colleagues who either…
> Have you all heard of amazon’s Mechanical Turk? Basically it is a place where you can post a task to be done over the web, and how much you want to pay for it, and then people can sign up and do the task. Basically it is for tasks which a large group of…
