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I posted on the EMAC blog (Emerging Media and Communications here at UTD) about a class on YouTube, and now it seems that YouTube is taking an ever more academic turn. As I learned from Open Culture, Berkley and USC both have dedicated YouTube channels. Right now there offerings are sparse but they do cover [...]

Over the past couple of years Google has been working hard to chip away at the empire of Microsoft, particularly by creating online alternatives to Microsoft Word. Googledocs, and Googlespreadsheets offer good alternatives to Microsoft, with several advantages: primarily cost (Google is free), but also you can edit your files from any computer, and have [...]

I was wondering when something like this was going to become available: an online white-board. You can sign up for a free account, send people the url and anyone with access to a web browser can watch as you update the space. Think of it as the web’s virtual chalkboard. The interface [...]

Last week Dan Cohen had this to say about textual visualization. Basically Dan argues that textual visualization often gives you the obvious answers, and hides more nuanced analysis, like saying War and Peace is about Russia, or the Bible is about Jesus. Indeed if you run textual analysis on the New Testament, Jesus [...]

Weblogged points to this site which mobilizes Google Earth to track places in relation to literary works. Want to show your students the places in the Odyssey? Use this. (They have more than just the Odyssey, but I always had trouble keeping track of those place names so this seems like the most useful [...]

Okay, finally, without too much further ado, and two plane rides of writing later, I am going to outline all the steps I go through to “build” a presentation. Let me say a few things up front though. First, this again is not an expert thing, this is simply what I have developed [...]

I am catching up on all of the items I flagged for reading over the past week, and I ran across a tremendously well developed paper on Seminar.net about The Rhetoric of PowerPoint. This is a paper by Jens. E. Kjeldsen an associate professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Kjeldsen rightly points [...]

This is the final post in a series about how to conquer the technological hurdles, and teach a digital game in your class. If you haven’t already you might want to start at the first post. If you have read the first two, then you should be ready for this last post, on [...]

So this is the second post in my series on how to teach a digital game for your higher ed class (if you are just joining us you might want to tune into the first episode here.

One of my favorite blogs Lifehacker covered slideshare the other day. Now while slideshare is in Beta, this could turn into a tremendous web application for academics. With Slideshare you can load a slide show (think powerpoint, open office, or just a collection of images) easily onto the web and make them available [...]