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Archive for “March, 2009”

OMG-Blackboard Does Something Right

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Pardon my snark, but I have become accustomed to Blackboard and WebCT innovating after the curve, and providing vastly inferior products with pathetic user interfaces. Perhaps though someone at Blackboard is paying attention as they are developing a Blackboard interface for the iPhone. I do however reserve the right to make fun of them when [...]


Creative Commons and the Dissertation

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

No secret to the readers of this site that I am a bit of an evangelist for Creative Commons. And those who follow the work of danah boyd know that she filed her dissertation under a creative commons license. Despite the fact that the CC license is easy to use, some institutions have been weary [...]


Academic Branding and Portfolio Control

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

One of the things I consistently tell grad students is that they need to start developing an online profile now, their future, and the future of the profession depends on this. While already established faculty (read ones with secure full time jobs) can afford to ignore the developing intellectual landscape the coming generation of scholars [...]