BlogSchmog | We live as if the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be.

Another live-blogging experience for you … will clean up later.
Jeff Hancock from Cornell University — an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. His work is concerned with how information technologies – such as email, instant messaging, and videoconferencing – affect the way [...]

Service-learning—and it’s companion community-based research—is based on the idea that coursework is relevant to real-world communities. Rather than assigning students hypothetical tasks in a laboratory environment, local organizations are incorporated into the curriculum to provide a grounded context for educational projects. In return, the community partners receive free labor and the outcomes of the student work. I guest blog on the subject for Monroe County Councilperson Sophia Travis.

PacketGarden logs all of the activities one might do on a networked computer—Web surfing, file transfers, email, IM, games and P2P—and uses the accumulation to “grow” a personal 3D garden. The open-source tool monitors packets on designated ports, each with a different virtual plant to represent it. Uploads and downloads change the topology of the landscape. To quote the creator, “You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary.”