Foundations for Strategic Foresight (Slideshow)

Attention Conservation Notice: I’m currently doing research/training in Future Studies, and am collecting helpful online material for this. Ran across this great presentation on Forecasting and am blogging it for future reference.

Helpful Advice for Recent College Graduates

One of the really difficult things about being a college teacher is that, after being back for a few years now and getting to know many students on a personal level, I’ve begun to have several students come to me and say “Dr. Rice, I’m graduating in a few weeks. What do I do now?” [...]

Slideshow of my UK Second Life Island Presentation

For those of you who were unable to make it to the Totally Awesome University of Kentucky Second Life Island Grand Opening (whew!) last Thursday, here is the slideshow from my presentation.

Note: I’m not referring to such things as PowerPoint anymore. I’m using Keynote exclusively these days. And with other tools getting more popular all [...]

Awesome Lo-Fi YouTube Explanation of Twitter

This rocks. I especially love the use of lo-fi media (cut-outs, Flash Gordon-style animations) to explain a Web 2.0 tool like Twitter using another Web 2.0 tool like YouTube. The effect is jarring – in a good way – and really got (and kept!) my attention.

UK Second Life Island Grand Opening Thursday

Just wanted to post this invitation to UK’s Grand Opening for its Second Life Island on Thursday afternoon. I’ll be giving a brief talk as part of a panel at 2pm at the WT Young Library Auditorium. You can participate in events in Real Life or Second Life all afternoon. I hope to see you [...]

How To Lecture

Attention Conservation Notice: Ran across this video and wanted to save it here for my future use. If you don’t care about becoming a better public speaker, please ignore. Thanks, Mgmt.

Social Networks Best Practices (Research Note)

Wanted to put this up as part of my research into social networking and politics 2.0. This is a  powerpoint of a research report by FaberNovel, a French research firm, and it’s quite good. Slide 14 on Virtual Identity and various social networking platforms is very intriguing. I wanted to save this for my own [...]

One Last Thing – November 8th

EDIT: The talk will be at 6pm NOT 6:30 as previously announced. My error. 
The promotional materials should be going out soon for the talk I’m giving for the UK Student Activities Board’s “One Last Thing” lecture series on November 8th, 6:30pm 6pm at the W.T. Young Library Auditorium. This lecture series asks faculty members to [...]

Sustainability in/and Appalachia

I’ll be speaking on a panel at tomorrow’s sustainability conference at UK. The panel is titled “Sustainability in/and Appalachia” and I’l be speaking about nonprofit organizations and sustainability in the region. Other panel members include Ernie Yanarella, Herb Reid and Dick Levine. The panel will start at 1pm in Room  359 of the UK Student [...]

Play and Digital Space

Attention Conservation Notice: I’m putting this PowerPoint up for future reference. As some of you know, I’m considering a Second Life component of American Political Thought next semester, so this is just going into the research/prep stream for that. Note to self: Read The Play Ethic now that it’s out in US paperback.