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Stanford University has launched a blog directory, a list of students, faculty, alumni, and student groups with blogs. While the list is pretty short (I imagine there are many more Stanford “community members” who blog than this) a couple of things about the list strike me as interesting. First, that it is conceived not just [...]

Those who follow this blog know that I think blogging platforms are the answer to presenting classroom material online, especially given their ability to be modified via plugins to conform to your specific needs. Two developments on this front: A couple of months ago The Institute for the Future of the Book released CommentPress a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Personally I am a big fan of edublogs, if I did not have my own domain I would host by educational blog there. But if the Wordpress/edublogs format is not for you and you are looking for a blogging option for your class, you might want to check out 21 Classes. 21 Classes [...]

Apparently this blog has made the list for the Bloggers Choice Awards. Okay no way am I going to get enough votes to win, but a few more would be nice. So, if you like reading this blog click on the image below which will take you to the educational category and give me [...]

Supposing you have time, here are some things of note.
Find a tutor: Lifehacker post on a service that helps you find a tutor, or if you are a tutor find a student. As of now the service only works Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Just as instructive though is the discussion about the [...]

I have said here before that I think most of what professors want to accomplish online for their classes is easily done by a blog. That’s it no WebCT or Blackboard needed. A blog can handle making a syllabus accessible, updating assignments, providing links to outside information, and with a little creative effort, [...]

William Turkel at Digital History Hacks has a post about using Netvibes to create a web page to handle what is new in your field. Essentially he compiles RSS from various sources to give him a sense of new books, news, and ongoing conversations in his field. Damn! This is smart.

Teaching Hacks a blog dedicated to outlining . . .well hacks for teaching . . .ergo the name, has just added a wiki to the site. Right now there is not much content there, but this then is sort of the point I guess. Wiki’s are supposed to be collaborative efforts. Teaching [...]