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The Read Write Web, one of those top quality blogs, has a rundown on Web Applications for Students. This list is long, thorough, and sorted well. The article goes thru replacements for office, notetaking apps, mindmapping apps, useful sites for studying, and so much more. And, the best part the article starts […]

Somebody recently accused me of being too technological. I am not actually sure how this is possible, since my dissertation is about how we are always technological. . . like the school someone was telling me about recently that was having an “anti-technology meeting.” Seriously? Are they going to ban paper and pencils? Those are […]

I discovered Gradual Progress the other day, a website that collects links that might be of interest to grad. students in various disciplines. I have shared here before some advice on taking exams, writing a dissertation,, and how devon can help. But, given that Gradual Progress collects the work of many, you are […]

I finished reading David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous a couple of weeks ago. Not an amazing book, but worth the time. His thesis is pretty straight forward, but he does have many examples and cases to back up his analysis, many of which are outside of my field of knowledge so they were interesting […]

What happens when you take Skype (a service that allows you to make free or cheap phone calls—depending on how you set it up) and add in ZohoShow (an online free version of Power Point)?
A way for a student to demonstrate knowledge from a distance. This is from a teacher in secondary ed., but […]

I was talking to a couple of professors yesterday who were teaching online classes this summer in a pilot program. To say the least, they were having a great deal of trouble using the technology. Now I didn’t look at it a long time, but it struck me how clunky, un-userfriendly, and awkward […]

A while ago I mentioned on this blog, and on another site, that the one computer program/application that I want that does not exist is a syllabus creator. I want something that is more than a word processor. A program that will ask me the range of dates for class, the number of […]