Whenever I talk to faculty and students about the use of social media in the academy, I advocate for a community building approach. The idea is relatively simple: communication has the power to enrich or…
In his inaugural address as president of the college he founded, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg spoke of the values that animate the institution: "We do not regard an education as complete that aims only at improving the intellect,”…
As a discipline, philosophy is struggling to come to terms with the public affordances of social media. This is a bit surprising given that Socrates himself never shied away from publicly engaging those he encountered…
Graduate students are often confronted with conflicting advice about how much of their academic work they should share publicly online. Although there are good reasons to consider carefully what one shares and how, graduate students…
As a graduate student in the digital age, you need a domain of your own. First of all, you will be Googled, and when you are, your domain should appear early in the results as…
Last year, there was some controversy over the question of live-tweeting at academic conferences and in academic settings more generally. The hashtag that emerged then, on Twitter of course, was #Twittergate. In this post, I…
It is going to happen. Maybe not today or this week, but eventually, you will be Googled. I am not talking about being Googled by an old friend interested in what you might be up…
They will tell you it is too dangerous, that you'll say something stupid and never be hired. They'll say it is too fast, too superficial, too full of snark to be of any value to…
I began blogging in earnest shortly after my arrival at Penn State in 2004, but it was not until June 2007 that I created this blog, the Long Road, to reflect on my experiences share…
Facebook Originally uploaded by laikolosse A number of recent changes to the social media technologies I use daily force me again to reflect on the habits design decisions cultivate in us. The decisions made by…
West End of Bloomsburg, PA Originally uploaded by colecamp I have long had the vague idea that newspapers need to recognize that the core of their business is the business of their communities. Sometimes the…
The Wind is Beautiful Originally uploaded by cplong11 Nicolas Carr's article in The Atlantic, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, considers the impact new media technologies are having on human cognition. Although he recognizes the reciprocal nature of…
Digital media technology, when deployed in ways that cultivate shared learning communities in which students and teachers are empowered to participate as partners in conjoint educational practices, can transform the way we teach and learn…
July 2010 029 Originally uploaded by Penn State Smeal MBA Today I venture outside of my comfort zone in talking about teaching and learning with technology in the Liberal Arts to address a group of…
Writing Three Ways Originally uploaded by cplong11 New media technologies are transforming the practice of education, and our practices of education must change in the wake of the emergence of new media technologies. In this…
In episode 37 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Matt Jordan, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the College of Communications here at Penn State. His work focuses on jazz, pop…
Episode 26 of the Digital Dialogue is a special edition in which Jaimie Oberdick, Associate Editor for Publications at Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) at Penn State, turns the tables on me and interviews…
"... we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization."-- Andrea Lunsford, in Wired article "Clive Thompson on the New Literacy"PrefaceThe web log, or blog, opens…
In episode 10 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Allan Gyorke, Ryan Wetzel, and Matt Meyer, the team that has been working with me during my summer faculty fellowship at Penn State's Teaching…
In episode four of the Digital Dialogue podcast, Allan Gyorke and I talk with recent PhD Philosophy graduate and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Michael Brownstein, about his work on…