Google Brings Living Stories to WordPress
I will be looking into this very soon for our WordPress engine-based blogs here. If I understand it right, this plug-in will allow you to target a news story, and […]
April 2010
Facebook: Bad Bet for Student Data
In the well-written article below, the author makes clear why we need to take care in using Facebook for academic purposes (and I do not recommend it). The upshot is […]
Barbara Strauch on the Middle-Aged Brain
This post is the start of a month-long series looking at the brain and learning, leading up to the Summer Institute. First, let’s look at the latest research considering the […]
Ways of Dealing with Disruptive Students
Here are some tips from Ferris State University (Source: http://www.ferris.edu/fctl/Docs/DealingwithDisruptiveStudents.pdf) Ways of Dealing with Disruptive Students Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance (V. Ruggerio)—most of the […]
Are we being homogenized by Web 2.0?
In a review of Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget, Michael Agger of Slate Magazine discusses the author’s premise, which is that the new Web tools like Wikipedia, Facebook, […]
First Look: Apple iPad
Is it possible that in a few years all our students will all have an iPad-type device costing under $300? Instead of heavy backpacks, overpriced textbooks, and notebooks, this device […]
