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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 [...]

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 [...]

Jenn’s classroom, the one where she has students blogging as part of the composition class, is approaching half-way through the semester. While she has met with success as far as getting students involved, she would really like to get outside comments on the students posts. That is, she wants to get the students [...]

Yet another online resource for educators, Academic Blogs is a web portal that keeps track of blogs in the academic blogosphere. The principle advantage of this site, over say Crooked Timber, is that this one is a wiki, so it remains rather dynamic and with the potential to be more thorough. The blogs [...]

MSU has launched a site aimed at being the comprehensive on-line resource for those blogging in higher-ed. While I know of several resources for blogging in education most of these focus on k-12, Blogs for Learning fills a gap in higher-ed. In addition to tutorials on how to set up blogs (on several [...]

TechCrunch has an article about Citizendium a project by Larry Sanger, one of the founders of the now defunct Nupedia (harbinger to Wikipedia). Sanger apparently wants to make a better Wikipedia, or in his version a more civilized Wikipedia. Strikes me that Sanger has a real loser of an idea on his hands [...]

Thanks to Henry Jenkin’s blog I discovered The Project for New Media Literacy. I have been wondering about something like this. For sometime now there has been the need to think thru how significantly media literacy has changed and just as importantly to provide educators with tools and resources to teach this to [...]