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I am currently working on a longish post about using Twitter in academia, but in the meantime I have collected some useful links to peruse.

First up Big Think. Think of YouTube for ideas. The polish on this site is nice, and it seems to be off to a good start with some rather substantial names [...]

The short version: Yale now offers a range of course materials online free to the public. While currently the number of courses is rather limited, the scope of materials for each class is substantial and more thorough than current alternatives. The Yale Online Initiative isn’t perfect, but it is a huge step in the right [...]

If you are new to the world of Web 2.0 and are looking for a good introduction you might want to check out Mark Marino’s talk. Mark recently did a presentation at USC which covered a range of internet tools that one might consider for teaching and research. The link is to his write up [...]

I was going to right a post about a new online tool, Sandy, but Gearfire has already done it. Sandy is a personal organization tool that allows creates reminders and to-do lists and then will email them to you, so you don’t have to remember. As Gearfire concludes, this would be useful for students or [...]

I have been increasingly interested in the way YouTube changes the public sphere. Over at Emerging Media and Communications (website for my department here at UTD) I wrote about a teacher who is exploring these issues in the classroom and at Media Commons I raised the question about how the Youtube Debates might change our [...]

Two weeks ago I mentioned a report titled “The Cost of Copyright and Media Confusion.” One of the papers principle claims is that ignorance of copyright law is damaging education. To help clear up these matters you can read the copyright crash course an excellent primer on things copyright and academe. This resource is [...]

Today I received an email promoting The University of Toronto’s online writing workshop. Less than a workshop this site is really more of a series of guidelines for composing college papers. While not as extensive as Purdue’s Owl (one of the best around), the Toronto site has some useful information, and appreciate the way it [...]

Stanford University has launched a blog directory, a list of students, faculty, alumni, and student groups with blogs. While the list is pretty short (I imagine there are many more Stanford “community members” who blog than this) a couple of things about the list strike me as interesting. First, that it is conceived not just [...]

Let’s say you have a bunch of content on a Blackboard system, and have decided that their copyright policies are bad, or that it is a clunky, inadequate CMS, but you don’t want to leave all your hard work behind. Never fear. The University of North Carolina has come to the rescue with the Blackboard [...]

Just yesterday I was talking with a fellow academic, who frustrated by Endnotes was wondering what other options exist for managing references. My no think response was Zotero. Which caused me to think about doing another plug for Zotero here on Academhack, but fortunately for me, another scholar has already done this work. Scott McLemee [...]