Absent but Still Here
To the readers, I apologize greatly for lack of posting, being new faculty has taken up all my time. What little blogging time I have had has been taken up by the blog for Emergent Media and Communications here at UTD. But never fear, I now have an office (which wasn’t the case a couple of weeks ago) and am ready to resume regular blogging.
To hold people over before the longer upcoming posts here are some things of interest
- First links to the blogs for the two classes I am teaching here at UTD
- Undergrad class on communication in the digital era.
- Grad Class on the Digital Archive
- And here is a truncated list of things I have been collecting that might be of interest:
- Docx File Converter: If you are on a Mac and students have not learned to save as an .rtf this will allow you to convert files.
- Top Learning Tools: A collection of the learning tools that educators have flagged as essential. This list is aggregated from a collection of educators top ten lists. No surprise Firefox is #1, but egads Power Point is #5—Power Point makes my top ten worst tools of all time.
- Preparing Courses: Advice on preparing new courses from Tomorrow’s Professor
- RSS Textbook: Because I love RSS, this post by Weblogg-ed covers his thoughts on RSS, and ultimately using it as source material for the class.