Link to: The Chronicle: Daily news: 10/27/2005 — 02 I first saw the announcement of these electronic study guides and naively thought of how valuable it would be to students to have audio excerpts of some of the key parts of the literature they were studying. I keep making these mind trips back to the…
Month: October 2005
A Notion Even More Idealistic Than Honor Codes
Link to: Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : Will Richardson has some thoughts on ethical issues that challenge our current thinking about good and evil in the world of blogs, wikis and other social sloftware. At the end of a presentation he was giving, one of the particpants commented that her school…
Do University Honor Codes Work?
Link to: Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Do University Honor Codes Work? Ed Felton has an interesting post in light of last night’s discussion about the ethics of Turnitin.com and class requirements to submit papers. Felton responds to a string of comments to a post by Rick Garnett on a popular “blawg” (blog…
Drupal Number Two in Multi-User Blogs
Link to: Blogsavvy: Professional Blog Consultant Drupal came out number two in James Farmer’s survey of multi-user blogging engines. As we’ve been noticing in our work with Drupal in class, one obstacle to making it number one is the complexity of the vocabulary and the huge array of modules available to extend the functionality of…
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Link to: Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) Jakob Nielsen, one of the ‘net’s leading experts on web usibility, site design, and designing effective user interfaces, has posted some suggestions for improving the readibility of your weblog. Blogging management systems frees writers from many of the compexities of web design, but…
Classnotes: Blackboard Acquisition of WebCT
Link to: Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Blackboard Acquisition of WebCT Hi All, I’m sure that all of you have seen the news about the Blackboard WebCt merger. (Thanks to Mary who got the news from WebCT some hours before those of us in the Blackboard world.) Stephen Downes has pulled together a…
Reading Blogs for Professional Development
One of the students in my planning class asked me to share the blogs and news I was reading for my own professional development. I wanted to go beyond merely sharing my blogroll, and give some thought to the process that I go through to try to distill some valuable learning from my own blog…
Drezner Denied Tenure
Link to: danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: So Friday was a pretty bad day…. One of the articles we read for our “should graduate students blog?” discussion was Confessions of a Scholar Who Blogs by Daniel Drezner at the University of Chicago. Last week, the political science department voted to deny him tenure. Lots…
Educause Core Data Survey
Link to: pub8002.pdf (application/pdf Object) Educause has released its annual core data survey, the leading source of comprehensive statistics about the state of the world of campus IT organizations. The summary report, which is well over 100 pages long, is posted on the Educause website. Educause members can log into a password protected web site…
Collaborative Writing/Planning Tools
Link to: lifehack.org » Online Document Collaboration Tool – 37Signals’ Writeboard Lifehack points to a web-based application called Writeboard that might be a better way of writing collaboratively than any of the tools we’ve considered so far–wiki, blackboard forum or sending multiple word documents among 7-8 recipients. This another lightweight application from 37Signals which produces…
