Steel Wagstaff
Trying to do good things for good reasons
Tag: techmology
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Adding Interactivity to Web Annotation
For the past few years, I’ve been working to improve how content experts at my university can write, develop, and publish open educational resources. Early in 2016, I published my own set of core principles for an authoring & publishing tool. I first began developing these principles in the summer of 2015, and after comparing…
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In Search of Lost Whittenbergers
It’s been a little bit of a whirlwind ever since I dug out the old issue of the Whittenberger Summer Writing Project and decided that I wanted to try to find and contact everyone who had attended. I can only imagine what organizers of high school reunions have to deal with, but this has been…
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#6: Choosing a Photographer & Videographer
In talking to several of our friends about planning weddings, it seems that one of the difficult and most stress-inducing experiences for many couples is choosing their wedding photographer. I suppose this is because wedding photographs are such important mementos, the tangible reminders of the day’s events, and wedding albums have certainly been one of…
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On Completing My Last University Course, Perhaps Ever.
On Sunday morning, I took the last final for the last university course that I am obligated to take for the rest of my life. I was enrolled in two courses this past semester and one was an introductory basketball class, so I wasn’t exactly nervous about the content of that final. The other was…
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To be a Carer
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about the medical profession, and more broadly, about health. I’m not certain why, particularly since I haven’t been ill lately, and we tend usually to think of health and healers only when our body is not well, when we are in pain, when health eludes us. So I…
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Information Overload?
Since I purchased my first laptop two years ago, one of my most common mental states has been distraction. Too often, I find myself immersed in virtual information scapes teeming with curious, interesting, alluring, tugging things. Frequently, I find myself skimming several interesting sources, my attention distributed so broadly that it fails to penetrate much…