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I don’t know how long this has been available, but I was doing some researching via Project Muse today and noticed this:

Let me zoom in:

That’s right you can subscribe via RSS to a journal, and you will be sent updates when the new journal is issued. I tried this out on a few, but [...]

I am catching up on all of the items I flagged for reading over the past week, and I ran across a tremendously well developed paper on Seminar.net about The Rhetoric of PowerPoint. This is a paper by Jens. E. Kjeldsen an associate professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Kjeldsen rightly points [...]

Michigan State’s BlogsforLearning points to this article at Inside Higher Ed, about the, frankly hideous, information literacy levels of some students. In the interest of fostering some information literacy here are some resources:

Alan Liu’s policy statement on Wikipedia: Alan Liu (of Voice of the Shuttle) has long been concerned with questions of technology, knowledge, [...]

If you are thinking about distributing content for your class that would be available for students to listen, or see on their iPods, you might want to think again. iPods are apparently endangering America . . .or at least that is the case according to O’Reilly. (Sorry this was so ridiculous I couldn’t resist [...]

Okay, it might not be my favorite, it is hard to beat WhereTheHellisMatt, but as an academic resource Media Commons is perhaps one of the promising academic websites I have seen. It is organized by the folks at Future of the Book. It is hard in short to explain everything that this site [...]

Via Kairosnews I ran into eoffice hours today. Basically this is a free version of WebCT of Blackbaord. You can sign up at the site and they will host the online portions of your class. You can have discussion boards, assignments, syllabus, all of the things you are used to with the [...]

The National Council of English Teachers, has a set of resources designed to encourage teaching students in a range of media literacies. Some of the findings are surprising, as they indicate using computers and multi-media classrooms, markedly increase students engagement with the material. Not that I am surprised by these findings but surprised that [...]

This is the final post in a series about how to conquer the technological hurdles, and teach a digital game in your class. If you haven’t already you might want to start at the first post. If you have read the first two, then you should be ready for this last post, on [...]

So this is the second post in my series on how to teach a digital game for your higher ed class (if you are just joining us you might want to tune into the first episode here.

Have you ever edited a document, saved it, and then wished you could go back and change it? A reader sent this tip in: Versomatic allows you to retrieve old versions without hacking any code or accessing system files. I have not used it, as I run daily backups of documents, but if [...]