Musings and Mumblings
The inner monologue of Kiley Fischer
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“I was having dinner with a group of friends, talking about our kids, and one of them told a story about watching a DVD with his four-year-old daughter.  In the middle of the movie, apropos of nothing, she jumped off the couch and ran behind the screen.  My friend thought she wanted to see if […]

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I love going new places and exploring new cultures.  However, I can see why ideas like CouchSurfing.com would be a pretty awful idea. Yes, there were success stories of tourists having amazing trips.  They sound fantastic.  I want great adventures, too. …And then there are stories of women being raped and strangled with no one […]

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The Invisible College fascinates me.  Short of being a nerd for history, the idea of actually collaborating with others for mutual learning is incredibly interesting. Shirky writes, “Culture — not tools or insights — animated the Invisible College and transmuted alchemy into chemistry.  The members accumulated facts more quickly, and were able to combine existing […]

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I’m sick and tired of people being awful to each other.  There’s absolutely no reason for it.  Instead, I want to make a difference with social media.  I want to prove to people that positive change can come from the use of anonymous — not just hate and harassment. Therefore, I present: AnonyLOVE.  My idea […]

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Clay Shirky, I’ll admit it — you can bore me to tears. You do, however, have a solid point. I love the idea of social media being used for a positive outcome.  We see so much negativity on the internet anymore from anonymous bloggers.  Why waste the extra time you have by harassing someone you’ve […]

Blogging, blogging everywhere, and not enough time to– I’m not really sure why I felt that opening was relevant, but it worked in my head. Perhaps that’s one thing I like about blog portfolios.  I like going back and seeing what made sense in my head and what worked.  Admittedly, sometimes things don’t make sense. […]

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When I was a kid (and, admittedly, I’m severely stretching how young I was to preserve my dignity), PBS ran a show called “Cyberchase” before the reruns of “Wishbone.”  (That perky little literature-loving Jack Russell was really why I was watching PBS so late into high school.)  Despite my reasons, I vividly remember the villain, […]

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Or, at least, I’m pretty sure how that works.  I’m pretty much the only person left in America who hasn’t seen “Inception.”  (I think.) I have to admit, I’m not entirely sure I agree with Fitzpatrick’s initial view of blogging in her piece about classroom blogging.  “Thus students need to be focused in their original […]

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I had never really thought about an interactive fiction associated with an eBook.  I understand that it’s a piece of…literature, for lack of a better word, and it’s on screen, but I never thought of it as an eBook.  Despite working with interactive fiction for New Media Projects, it was never something I associated with […]

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More and more, I’m realizing that my complete love of books really might be obsolete.  The fact that it seems as though eBooks are taking over the world breaks my heart. Engadget posted an article concerning this. US sales of e-books generated about $90.3 million in revenue in February — roughly triple the sales reported […]