Rantings

Lately I have been spending more time than usual thinking about the future of education, not just in terms of how to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom, but more broadly how the ubiquitous nature of knowledge and information is going to transform the institution of higher education. Now granted this is a large …..

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

If you want to convert a Microsoft Word document into an HTML document that makes sense, follow the suggestions on this tutorial. (I know Microsoft Word lets you do this automatically, but the HTML is produces is at best questionable, and usually horrendous.) The methods in this tutorial are much better, and worth the effort …..

Inside Higher Ed has a piece on educators who are using wikis in class. For the most part the article simply rehashes the “Wikipedia is good, Wikipedia is bad” argument, but this time with a pro-wikipedia spin. The article discusses several instructors who use Wikipedia in their classes, either as source material or editing Wikipedia …..

At last the long promised follow-up to the previous Twitter post. For whatever reason that blog entry has garnered a great deal of interest, so rather than respond individually in comments to those who posted here and elsewhere I thought I would group my thoughts together in one place. My General Philosophy Let me start …..

Apparently Blackboard wants to be Big Brother. (As if being a patent troll wasn’t bad enough.)

Sorry, still working on an extensive twitter post (our spring break is next week so it should come soon), but in the meantime here are some other useful things that I found around the internet that might interest you as well. How To Teach with Netvibes: Mainly I use a blog to organize online material …..

An editorial I wrote for Science Progress regarding digital literacy, education, and Wikipedia is now available. As those who read this blog are probably already aware I find the whole “ban Wikipedia” movement humorous. But, this article takes a slightly different track and claims banning it is actually irresponsible.

Those who have been reading this blog know that I like to poke fun at the anti-technology position. Seems to me that pen and paper are also a technology, so pining for a past when humans were free of machines and technology seems a bit ridiculous to me. Enter Lee Siegel’s new book Against the …..

I am working on a follow up post to my recent scribe on using Twitter in Academia (for whatever reason this garnered a great deal of interest and I have received many questions which I am trying to address in one long post). At any rate in the meantime here are some places around the …..