Tag: CLASSES

Some say you can learn all you want about art -- technique, history, theory -- but, if you don't have that certain je ne sais quoi, your work won't be exquisite. Viral videos, perhaps, are kinda the same. So when Gawker.TV's Richard Blakeley sets out to teach a class to marketers on "how to go viral," it may be a little pointless. Sure, corporations have most certainly gotten it right, like the ...

Lyndon Baty's weakened immune system won't allow him to attend classes at his local high school in Knox City, Texas. Fortunately, though, there's a robot capable of doing that for him. Baty, who suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease, is now remotely attending his freshman classes via a VGO robot, which allows him to interact with his teachers and fellow students from the comfort of his own ...

Go to pretty much any college campus in the world, and you'll stumble upon Socrates, ponder over Plato, or fling a frisbee during a game of Ultimate. One university in Australia, though, is adding a dash of online social networking to their course catalog. Welcome to Twitter-damia. In a move that further cements Twitter's status as a mainstream media tool, Griffith University has introduced a ...