http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home Tech Tools for Academics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:49:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have finally returned from my end of month traveling and am getting back to work on my current project (more on that later). But for now I wanted to join an ongoing conversation, about what was one of the most productive academic conferences I have been to: THATCamp. First, ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/thatcamp-hopefully-the-model-for-future-conferences/ This week I am hosting the Teaching Carnival. This weeks Teaching Carnival theme: The Future of Education. Alex Halavis suggests that the future of education lies outside the walls of the university. After all, what are students paying for? an administrative function that they can perform themselves? Personally I am not that ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/teaching-carnival/ Pardon my snark, but I have become accustomed to Blackboard and WebCT innovating after the curve, and providing vastly inferior products with pathetic user interfaces. Perhaps though someone at Blackboard is paying attention as they are developing a Blackboard interface for the iPhone. I do however reserve the right to ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/omg-blackboard-does-something-right/ No secret to the readers of this site that I am a bit of an evangelist for Creative Commons. And those who follow the work of danah boyd know that she filed her dissertation under a creative commons license. Despite the fact that the CC license is easy to use, ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/creative-commons-and-the-dissertation/ One of the things I consistently tell grad students is that they need to start developing an online profile now, their future, and the future of the profession depends on this. While already established faculty (read ones with secure full time jobs) can afford to ignore the developing intellectual landscape ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/academic-branding-and-portfolio-control/ To be honest I was only half serious when I started this rant on Twitter yesterday. You see my Thursday’s are really long, my first class starts at 10:00am and my last class ends at 10:00pm, so I try to keep myself entertained and mentally active. Twitter I discovered is ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/tenure-round-1-the-issues/ For those who are not on twitter and following the recent meme about changing TOS, you should start by reading this post and the subsequent follow-up. To be fair to Facebook part of the momentum here is a general sense of angst about who owns what when it is stored in ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/facebook-changing-the-terms-of-service/ I have had several conversations recently that take one of two shapes: 1. Why do you have over a 1,000 followers but only follow 200? or 2. How do you decide who to follow? These questions seem related, if not coterminous, and go to the heart of what I find ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/who-i-follow-on-twitter/ Steven Johnson, who I started reading because of his book Everything Bad is Good For You (a well thought out defense of digital games) has a post on boingboing documenting his novel writing process (he has a new book out). Although he says he has used various writing tools for ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/devon-for-novel-writing/ (A story of Twitter, academia, and old journalism trying to be new but failing.) Okay first read this article on CNN about the new whitehouse.gov website, okay you can actually just skim the article and skip to the last three paragraphs. Yes, that’s me being quoted in that article, and ... http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/how-my-quote-ended-up-on-the-cnn-article/