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In the past week both The Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed have run stories about professors at Middlebury College taking a “stand against” Wikipedia. But this really doesn’t tell the story. In fact what Middlebury has done is tell students to not use Wikipedia as a primary source, and including such language on [...]

As if the .doc problem wasn’t bad enough, now we have to worry about .docx.
So as many are probably aware, Microsoft released its new operating system, and along with that release comes an updated version of Microsoft Office. The problem here is that the new Microsoft Office saves files in a different format than [...]

Michael Wesch an assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, has made this wonderful video. A quick run down on Web tech and how it changes the world. This video is so good I think I might start my next media theory class with it.

Two things worth checking out this morning over your coffee, or depending what time you read this your lunch:

Jen covers her use of Easy Grade. Me, I have never had a class where I was keeping track of this many assignments, so investing the time to try out a grading program seemed a bit on [...]

This is brilliant. Read through. I promise it is worth the pay-off for all those who are interested in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia Brown matches wits with Bugs Meany in The Case of the Captured Koala!