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I was going to right a post about a new online tool, Sandy, but Gearfire has already done it. Sandy is a personal organization tool that allows creates reminders and to-do lists and then will email them to you, so you don’t have to remember. As Gearfire concludes, this would be useful for students or […]

I have been increasingly interested in the way YouTube changes the public sphere. Over at Emerging Media and Communications (website for my department here at UTD) I wrote about a teacher who is exploring these issues in the classroom and at Media Commons I raised the question about how the Youtube Debates might change our […]

Two weeks ago I mentioned a report titled “The Cost of Copyright and Media Confusion.” One of the papers principle claims is that ignorance of copyright law is damaging education. To help clear up these matters you can read the copyright crash course an excellent primer on things copyright and academe. This resource is […]

I just got back from a conference in Portland (Maine not Oregon). Honestly one of the more interesting/produtive academic conferences I have attended (the annual SLSA conference for those who are interested). While the quality of the presentations were high, it struck me that many a presenter could have benefited from a little free application […]