Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go – Chronicle.com
AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go It’s hard to tell young people that universities view their idealism and energy as an exploitable resource [From Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go – Chronicle.com] —— I think this should not just be Humanities, it is somewhat the same in […]
Read MoreHacker News | Don’t Become a Scientist.
Don’t Become a Scientist. [From Hacker News | Don’t Become a Scientist.] interesting insider/outsider discussion about the workings of modern science and the appreciations of that.
Read MoreFellowship and Conference
Since Tuesday I have been in Milwaukee visiting SOIS and CIPR as part of my Information Ethics fellowship. I attended a discussion about a possible future conference on translating intercultural information ethics across the situated understandings that term implies across a plurality of contexts. That seems like a great project, I’m happy to help out […]
Read MoreBlackboard wins initial round on patent suit damages awarded 3+million
The verdict, announced this afternoon, allows Blackboard Inc. to demand a ban on sales of Desire2Learn’s products in the United States. [From TheRecord.com – News – Local: Jury rules against Desire2Learn in patent case ] —- I cannot help but wonder why this patent has not been invalidated. There has to be innumerable examples of […]
Read Moremorning IM chats on teaching with technology
A colleague brought up the recent inquiry on technology in the classroom here which led to my general use of high technology in the classroom as found below: me: 10:33 way back when i started teaching 10:34 my colleagues introduced me to the most handy bit of kit 10:34 it’s called a codex 10:34 it […]
Read MoreWeblogg-ed » What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.
What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really. [From Weblogg-ed » What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.] —- there is an interesting discussion occurring at weblogg-ed about kids and learning. my addition is that kids have learned to be compartmentalized, not taking intellectual risks, and losing to some extent their curiousities […]
Read MoreAcademia is a Cult « Bug Girl’s Blog
Academia is a Cult [From Academia is a Cult « Bug Girl’s Blog] — here’s an interesting set of opinions. too bad some things don’t fit… though certainly other parts of the argument illustrate certain parallelisms
Read MoreAigaion – A web-based bibliography system
Imagine you have 100 hands for holding publications and 50 heads to read and process all that information. You would be able to recall quite some bit. Unfortunately, one does not have so many heads.. [From Aigaion – A web-based bibliography system] —- another interesting bibliography management system
Read MoreCarmun – Social Networking for Writing School Papers
Carmun – Social Networking for Writing School Papers: The cheeky YouTube video that explains Carmun describes the service as “Wikipedia meets Facebook”. But essentially its a social network for people who have to write term papers. There’s lots of tools for asking peers questions, managing bibliographies, and some del.icio.us-esque tools for saving online sources. —- […]
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