Technology

Keynote Tweet, Mavericks and Keynote v6

If you are, as I am, in the habit of live-tweeting your own lectures using Keynote and the Applescript Keynote Tweet 2.5, originally created by Toby Harris and subsequently updated by @cogdog, you will need…

Christopher LongDecember 26, 2013

Education Technology The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

Technology in the Practice of Philosophy

This summer two colleagues, Marina McCoy and Adriel Trott, asked me if I had a short video about my use of technology as a professor of philosophy. At the time, I didn't. But their requests…

Christopher LongNovember 6, 2013

Digital Dialogue Podcast Technology

Digital Dialogue 66: Sustainable Scholarship

Almost immediately upon being awarded a $236K Mellon Grant to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher, Dean Rehberger and I found ourselves in New York at the 2013 Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship conference to learn…

Christopher LongNovember 1, 2013

Education Technology The Long Road

Research and the Penn State Vision

The Long Road at the BWVision On Saturday, January 19, 2013, I joined administrators, staff and members of the Penn State Board of Trustees for the Blue and White Vision Council Seminar at the Nittany…

Christopher LongJanuary 24, 2013

Education Technology The Long Road

Initial Reflections on MOOCs and the College Curriculum

Villemard 1910 - En L'An 2000 - At School Originally uploaded by amphalon As the debate over Massively Open Online Courses, also known by their unfortunate acronym: MOOC, rages on, I thought I would begin…

Christopher LongDecember 19, 2012

Twitter, Community and the First Year Experience

Words do things. What they do, depends on the manner in which they are said, written and received. What they did, and failed to do, last night is something that requires some reflection. That is…

Christopher LongNovember 29, 2012

Academic Technology The Long Road

On Live-Tweeting Your Own Lecture

On Thursday, October 25th, at 4:30 PDT, I will read a paper entitled, Plato and the Politics of Reading at the University of San Francisco. One of the main points of the paper is that reading is fundamentally a…

Christopher LongOctober 20, 2012

Education Technology The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

Multiplayer Introduction Game

At the 2012 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State, I had the honor of introducing Jane McGonigal, Creative Director of Social Chocolate, and game designer extraordinaire. In his book, The Grasshopper, Bernard…

Christopher LongMarch 24, 2012

Liberal Arts Voices Hanging Out on Google

Student Panel at LASTS11 Originally uploaded by LAUSatPSU On Wednesday, September 28th at 4pm eastern, we in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Studies office will take another step out into the great technological unknown by recording…

Christopher LongSeptember 27, 2011

Digital Research Technology The Long Road

Summer Research in Digital

This summer John Dolan, Director of Digital Media and Pedagogy, and I are heading up a summer digital research project in the College of the Liberal Arts. For a description of the project, check out…

Christopher LongMay 19, 2011

Evolving Digital Research Ecosystem

Final Edits Originally uploaded by cplong11 In the months since my last posts on using Mendeley, Zotero and the iPad for academic research, my experience has been more fully informed by practice. This fall I was…

Christopher LongDecember 27, 2010

Living Technology The Long Road

Prosthetic Gods

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud writes: With every tool man is perfecting his own organs, whether motor or sensory, or is removing the limits to their functioning (43). The passage touches on something I…

Christopher LongJuly 27, 2010

Digital Research Education Technology The Long Road

Mendeley on the iPhone

Mendeley on the iPhone Originally uploaded by cplong11 I am happy to report that Mendeley has developed an iPhone app that brings us a step closer to the digital research model I hope to implement…

Christopher LongJuly 20, 2010

Hacking Pedagogy

Cole Camplese and I were invited to be part of this year's Learning Design Summer Camp at Penn State. The presentation topic that was proposed to us was strong in and of itself, but when…

Christopher LongJuly 2, 2010

Integrating Mendeley into the Research Circle

It seems that my quest to close the digital research circle has been joined by a few fellow researchers. The idea is compelling and would not only save both time and paper, but would offer new…

Christopher LongJune 3, 2010

Zotero, the iPad and Summer Research

Last month in a post about closing the digital research circle, I wrote about using the iPad to read, take notes on pdf files and integrate those files into a bibliography program. We are still…

Christopher LongMay 21, 2010

Education Technology The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

Closing the Digital Research Circle

I have been looking for a way to close the circle of my digital academic research. The idea is to do rigorous philosophical research without paper, taking full advantage of cloud computing, the syncing of…

Christopher LongApril 15, 2010

Some Initial Thoughts on the iPad

It is already clear to me that the iPad does not replicate the experience of the iPhone even though many of the apps serve the same functionality. The iPad is much less intrusive in collaborative…

Christopher LongApril 8, 2010

Academic Transformation

Over the past few days I have been thinking more intensely about the meaning and nature of academic transformation. In the wake of the TLT Symposium at Penn State last weekend, I traveled to Orlando…

Christopher LongMarch 30, 2010

A Note on the 2010 Horizon Report

Upon reading the 2010 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium, I was struck by how the key trends in technology they identify might help us meet challenges they articulate. Let me mention a two…

Christopher LongFebruary 6, 2010

Academic Education LwCH Technology The Long Road

Embracing Different Voices

After talking to trusted people, thinking things over and otherwise working through the transition I am making to Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the College of the Liberal Arts, I have decided to embrace…

Christopher LongDecember 13, 2009

Re-designing the Long Road

One of the great privileges of my summer faculty fellowship has been the opportunity to work with creative and thoughtful educators and designers who were able to help me think more holistically about my identity…

Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2009

Stumbling Upon New Sites

Although I fancy myself someone who takes advantage of the web, I must admit that I find myself repeatedly going to the same sites all the time: the New York Times, Slate.com, the Centre Daily…

Christopher LongMay 18, 2009

Academic Technology The Long Road

Narrative on the Social Web

Yesterday Alan Levine, aka cogdog, gave a presentation on 50+ Ways to Tell a Story using Web 2.0 technologies. The presentation was excellent as it introduced us to a variety of tools available online for…

Christopher LongMay 6, 2009

Education Technology The Long Road

Grassroots Video

Over the last few months, I participated on an Educational Technology Services "hot team" that focused on researching the educational significance of grassroots video. If you don't know what grassroots video is, check out our…

Christopher LongApril 15, 2009

More iPod Touch Ups

I hesitate to write this after what has been such a difficult roll out for Apple of MobileMe, the Application store, firmware upgrades for the iPhone and iPod Touch and, of course, the introduction of…

Christopher LongJuly 13, 2008

Podcasting and Blogging the Liberal Arts

A Liberal Arts Education is committed to cultivating habits of thinking and acting capable of responding to the world in ways that open new possibilities for human community. It is oriented in part by what…

Christopher LongMarch 23, 2008

iPod Touch Ups

Last October I wrote with some frustration about the limitations of my iPod Touch, three months later, it is perhaps fair to revisit the list of issues I had with the device to see what…

Christopher LongJanuary 17, 2008

Web 3.0

After hearing the Education Technology Services (ETS) Talk, number 35 in which issues were raised about the limits of Facebook and other aspects of Web 2.0 social networking that were feeling a bit cumbersome, I…

Christopher LongDecember 13, 2007

My New iPod Touch

I received my new iPod Touch the other day and have had a few days to play with it. On the whole, I would say that it is very close to being one of the…

Christopher LongOctober 1, 2007