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A Model for Teaching College Writing

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

The following is a guest post from UT-Dallas graduate student, Barbara Vance (@brvance). This past semester Barbara taught an atypical rhetoric and composition course. Barbara teaches Rhetoric 1302, the standard introductory college writing course. She was given a course with a group of students who she was told, were struggling with writing and needed, “more [...]


Launching the Emerging Media Major

Friday, August 21st, 2009

So as most of the readers of this blog know, we launched a new major here at the University of Texas at Dallas: Emerging Media and Communications. (Sorry the website is not as informative as it ought to be, yet. We have been busy getting the program structured and have not had time to work [...]


Back from the Election Time Suck

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Now that the election is over, and my digital politics class will require less time, hopefully I can return to blogging here more. So to start here is a list of things I have been collecting over the last few weeks that just got placed in the “to blog about” pile. (Incidentally, if the local [...]


Web Based Research Management

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Holding on until election season is over. In the meantime here is a new site to keep you occupied:

lumifi is a online research tool for helping you to search and organize information from the web (sort of like a web based DevonAgent, DevonThink). You can watch the introductory video here.


Obligatory Back to School Post

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Read Write Web gives a list of the top 10 web apps for students.


Another Online Slide Creation Tool

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

No, that is not a screen shot of Keynote, it is from an online slide creation tool called 280Slides. The interface though is so similar to Keynote that one might accuse them of just ripping off Keynote, stripping it down and turning it into a web application. Indeed in reading thru the few blog posts [...]


Presentation Software-For Free

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Just finished my semester here at University of Texas at Dallas, which gives me time to return to this neglected blog.
Over a month ago I signed up for a beta-invite for Sliderocket, a what looked to be promising online presentation tool. Think of it as Google Docs for Power Point. To be sure there are [...]


Follow Up on Evernote-Getting Devon over the Web (iPhone)

Friday, April 11th, 2008

While I was checking out Evernote (see post below) I got enamored with the idea of having my database accessible over the web (read iPhone). Evernote makes this really easy. But ultimately Evernote was no where near powerful enough to entice me into switching (in fact I have been ramping up my Devon use lately [...]


Some Weekend Reading

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Here are some things readers of Academhack might find interesting.

One of the difficulties in teaching and researching on the web, is preserving the paths of exploration, not only for one’s own purposes but so that others can traverse the same path. In this regard I have mentioned Diigo before, which allows you to bookmark, highlight, [...]


Random (yet perhaps not so random) Set of Things Which Might Interest You

Monday, February 4th, 2008

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 [...]