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(This is now the fifth installement in the series on how I manage email. You might want to start with the begining. Read the most important one on why you need a mail program. And look thru the rules I tell my students (which contains my way of collecting email addresses). Lastly checking out [...]

Here’s one for all of those writing last minute syllabi for the coming semester. The Syllabus Finder hosted by the Center for History and New Media, is a search tool that builds on google search results to provide links to syllabi on the web. I had seen this a while back, and forgot [...]

I have already posted a couple of times here about Devon, and how powerful an academic tool this can be. The Devon website has just added some tutorials to the Devon Academy. As they point out these are rather basic tutorials, and are for those who are just getting started, but I think [...]

(This is now the fourth installement in the series on how I manage email. You might want to start with the initial explination. Read the intro on why you need a mail program. And look thru the rules I tell my students. This should explain everything up till this point.)
Allright up until now has [...]

(This is the third in a series if you haven’t already you might want to start by reading Part I and Part II.)
Before we go any further I thought I would go over the “rules” I give students for emailing. These are what I tell students with regards to email-usually on the first day, [...]

The prior mentioned WorldCat has just gone public. This means that now you can search all participating libraries catalogs. This is useful is several regards. First you can find research articles and digital items and retrieve them this way, even if your own library doesn’t have them. Second, if you need [...]

Getting started with Email
(This is the second artilce in a series about how I use email. The first one is here.)
The most important thing there is to know about email is, stop using webmail. Webmail is easy and simple because you can access your account from any web browser and the interface works just [...]

As the new semester is rapidly approaching I thought I would do a series on how I handle email. In fact email is in part what inspired we to start this project. Now for a brief story . . .if you are bored by the story you can skip to the end of this [...]

Zulupad has just released a new version of their software. Earlier I mentioned Vodoopad for the Mac, which is a great piece of software for taking notes. Zulu does the same, but is available for Mac and PC. Basically both of these programs let you type notes as you would in any [...]

One of the “visions” I have for this site is as a resource for academics who are not yet comfortable with technology, and looking for ways to use technology more efficiently. But one of the tricks to discussing technology is that there are always a wide range of abilities and familiarities with the tools. [...]