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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 [...]

A couple of weeks ago two students who had recently obtained their PhDs and I (I haven’t finished yet-but close) got together and held a workshop/talk on advise about writing the dissertation. The students who were able to attend found it was useful, so I thought I would spend some time writing up the [...]

I am working on a couple of longer things for the near future (tools for syllabus, some Devon notes, and writing a dissertation), but in the short span here are some useful links from around the web.
Two links on the Apple Mailing list. The first is a short review of information management software. The [...]

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 [...]

I received the following email from an Academhack reader.
Here’s my situation: I work in education policy, which means I spend a lot of time reading long-ish reports and writing syntheses, papers, policy briefings, etc. What I often find is that Report A will contain potentially useful info about a variety of topics (we’ll call those [...]

In the past week both The Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed have run stories about professors at Middlebury College taking a “stand against” Wikipedia. But this really doesn’t tell the story. In fact what Middlebury has done is tell students to not use Wikipedia as a primary source, and including such language on [...]

In my spare time (yeah right what spare time, honestly as a means to procrastinate) I have been reading John Willinsky’s The Access Principle which you can get for free from MIT press. Willinsky argues for both the ethical and practical reasons we should move to open access journals. The key part for [...]

I don’t know how long this has been available, but I was doing some researching via Project Muse today and noticed this:

Let me zoom in:

That’s right you can subscribe via RSS to a journal, and you will be sent updates when the new journal is issued. I tried this out on a few, but [...]

Michigan State’s BlogsforLearning points to this article at Inside Higher Ed, about the, frankly hideous, information literacy levels of some students. In the interest of fostering some information literacy here are some resources:

Alan Liu’s policy statement on Wikipedia: Alan Liu (of Voice of the Shuttle) has long been concerned with questions of technology, knowledge, [...]

The National Council of English Teachers, has a set of resources designed to encourage teaching students in a range of media literacies. Some of the findings are surprising, as they indicate using computers and multi-media classrooms, markedly increase students engagement with the material. Not that I am surprised by these findings but surprised that [...]