"Weekly Dozens" -- Sunday Magazine -- Covers Week Ending 5/31/14

Last updated: Sunday 6/1/14 @ 3:19 pm

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 5/31/14 @ 5:00 pm ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. News | B. Teaching | C. Technology | D. Hackers | E. Comments | F. Events | G. History | H. Opportunities

This week's cover = Photo of Dr. Maya Angelou whose passing is commemorated by many tweets and other photos in the History section ... photo via Good Morning America (ABC)

Other big stories included ECSU's reprieve from closure in the News section ... Apple's purchase of Beats & Google's un-diversity in the Technology section ... and the Hackathons in Atlanta & Los Angeles that were part of National Civic Hacking Day on Saturday 5/31/14 in the Hackers section

 

HBCU CONNECT Recruits Black Techies for Microsoft

Last updated: Thursday 5/29/14 @ 9:49 pm

This evening I attended a recruitment event for an information technology behemoth that was organized by HBCU CONNECT, one of the first online media companies to focus on HBCUs. Within five minutes after the presentations began, I knew with the absolute certainty of the little girl in the Wizard of Oz movie that I was neither in Kansas nor was I attending a Google recruitment festival. Why? Because there were too many smart black techies in the front of the room ... :-)

"Weekly Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 5/17/14

Last updated: Sunday 5/20/14 @ 11:17 pm

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 5/17/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. News | B. Teaching | C. Technology | D. Hackers | E. Comments | F. Events | G. History | H. Opportunities

This week's magazine cover = photo of Thurgood Marshall and some NAACP Legal Defense Fund colleagues after victory in landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court sixty years ago in 1954 ... photo via tweet by @NAACP_LDF

Click photo for related tweets in Black History section of magazine from @NAACP_LDF and others
 

Fight Club -- Dr. Diddy vs. Dr. Dr. Dre

Last updated: Monday 5/13/14 @ 9:38 am

A. Rules of Fight Club
The most important rules of Fight Club, as stated in Brad Pitt's 1999 movie by the same name, are the first two:

• 1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.
• 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB.

"Weekly Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 5/10/14

Last updated: Monday 5/12/14 @ 6:20 am

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 5/10/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

Dr. Diddy, Black Hackers, and Black Entrepreneurs

Last updated: Wednesday 5/12/14 @ 8:43 pm

Updating the comments by Sean Parker to Mark Zuckerberg in the Facebook movie, The Social Network, I just tweeted the following response to Diddy's request for help in writing his Howard University commencement address:

Forbes predicts you will soon be worth $1 billion. But $1 billion isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? $50 billion -- #DiddySpeechHU

"Weekly Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 5/3/14

Last updated: Sunday 5/4/14 @ 2:19 pm

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 5/3/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

Morgan State's Hackathon 2014

Last updated: Saturday 5/8/14 @ 3:38 am

On Friday afternoon (5/2/14) I traveled from DC up to Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, to observe the first couple of hours of Morgan State's third hackathon which began at 4:30 pm. The organizers of this important learning experience were Omar S. Muhammad, Director of Morgan's Entrepreneurial Development & Assistance Center (EDAC), who is a Morgan alum ... and Sam Henry who is a professional Web app designer, the co-founder of a company called "Given.to" (http://given.to), and another Morgan alum. By the time I left, 17 students, including three from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), had assembled into four teams.