Leslie Madsen-Brooks has a great post about the new online encyclopedia project, Citizendium. The idea behind Citizendium is to basically add some editorial oversight to a wikipedia-like project. In order to do so, Sanger recruited editors from the academic community. Bryan Alexander wrote about the launch of the site, which included a manifesto [...]

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At the beginning of a workshop today, I explained that it’s a common misconception that today’s students live and breathe technology and therefore, we, as educators should pile on the technology to appeal to them. Many college students have Facebook accounts, use IM, frequent YouTube and can manage multiple email accounts, but not all, and [...]

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The podcast of my panel with Angela Gossetti-Murrayjohn and Sue Fernsebner on blogging in the classroom is up. While you’re there explore the other podcasts and pictures and resources.

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Barbara Ganley has posted a version of her talk from Faculty Academy. It’s well worth a look. Video and audio coming soon.
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According to Ars Technica, Tablet PCs are finally gaining traction. Dell has announced it will come out with a tablet later this year, and there’s an aftermarket Mac tablet coming out this summer (supposedly).
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I just couldn’t let FA go, so I invited some of the people who made the whole thing possible to join me in a conference call to talk about the event, its history and future, and some of the issues that were raised by many of the presenters. We’ll be hearing from Martha Burtis, [...]

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This week, I’m delighted to be included in the program at the Faculty Academy at the University of Mary Washington. Along with two other humanities faculty from UMW, I will be talking about using blogs in my recent CSEM courses. I’m looking forward to hearing what my two co-presenters have to say about their [...]

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An interesting report on fair use, including a guy who says fair use should be restricted.
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A small clarification about my last post. In talking to a certain computer scientist I know, I learned that I misspoke just a bit in terms of what the key released via the Internet actually does. As I understand it (and a more technical person than myself should feel free to correct me), [...]

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The story I’m about to discuss may not seem like it’s relevant to education, but it is, extraordinarily so. But it wouldn’t seem like it to the average person. For the last few days, I’ve been watching the Internet buzz with excitement as a 32 digit number was published on a wide variety [...]

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