academhack

Here is the more or less weekly collection of academically useful links.
Teaching Hacks has a useful post on tools for educators who want to use video for their classes. Links to ways to download YouTube videos, add subtitles, or convert files.
In the past week I think I have seen and least four reviews of [...]

UCLA is apparently going to go open source for its course management system, choosing Moodle over Sakai.
And the ITS department has built a tool that will allow you to get contents out of Blackboard and make a free standing web site of it. It is called bfree and the ITS department has step by [...]

I recently discovered The Click Heard Round the World, a blog about technology and politics. Rik seems to me to be really forward thinking it tackling a range of issues. Today his blog has a link to a interview he did with Deadline LA. Anyway this led me to witness.org. Think [...]