Blogs/Wikis

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 …..

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 a …..

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 post, …..

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, a good …..

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 Hacks has in …..

I realize most of you are busy trying to finish your semester, so have no time to take on new projects. But, if you would like to learn more about scripting for the web, or managing web applications, you should bookmark the following two links and take a look at them over your break—these are …..

Teaching Hacks has an article covering how to use RSS to give out homework assignments. The idea here is to build an RSS feed that allows you to send out to your students the homework. I am intrigued by this idea, but it does seem a bit tech heavy. For K-12 the effort might be …..