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Archive for “September, 2008”

ProfCast for WIndows

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

The start of a semester, plus the height of a political season has severly trimmed down my academic-tech blogging, but, I couldn’t let the following announcement go unnoticed. Profcast is now available for Windows. Profcast is simply one of the best ways to record lectures and presentations and make them available for students and audiences [...]


Ironic Pedagogy

Friday, September 19th, 2008

File this under bad pedagogy and irony, a bit like teaching a statistics class but not letting the students use any numbers.


The Future of the Book

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

The future of the book?


Edmodo-Twitter for Educators

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Those who follow this blog know that I am seriously intrigued by Twitter, and have frequently written about its academic uses.
Enter Edmodo, Twitter for educators. Edmodo is a private microblogging service. I generally think one of the values of twitter is its public nature, being able to connect to people beyond your usual milieu. That [...]


To the Blogosphere a Moment of Your Time Perhaps.

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

As many of you know, I am currently teaching a class called Digital Politics, for which this is the class blog. I need a moment of your time, to perhaps help with this class. In this class students are studying and participating in the blogosphere of Digital Politics, following and commenting upon various aspects of [...]


Something for Grad Students

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Sorry not much posting going on here lately as the start of the semester has me not only immersed in classes, but engaged in the political blogosphere for my undergrad class (more on that later).
Anyway, if you are a graduate student looking to connect your research to those outside your immediate institution, you should check [...]