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Barbara Fister at Free Exchange on Campus tagged me to participate in the meme sparked by Dr. Crazy’s fantastic Why I Teach Literature post. It’s a little funny – I haven’t felt the need to write fantastic prose for any of my other posts on this blog, but somehow being tagged and getting a topic [...]
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it’s totally awesome. Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last couple of years knows that I am addicted to del.icio.us as an off-site storage space for my bookmarks, and as a knowledge community. And I’m also recently become a regular Google Reader user (making the shift from Sage to a web-based feed reader) because [...]
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If you gave Make Me a Supermodel a Try just because my sister was on it (thanks John!) and you’ve noticed that she hasn’t so much been on it in the last two episodes – at least they gave her a blog on the Bravo website, so you can get some sense of what it [...]
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So from transparency and participation in peer review to openness – openness in teaching and learning. Most of you have probably seen some mention of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. There’s a good description with some background on the initiative and its participants at Inside Higher Ed. So what does openness mean in this [...]
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Over the last few days, i’ve been seeing some similar projects popping up on the landscape — or, rather, fairly different projects tied together by a common thread. The thread is one of particular interest to me – how will things like peer review and traditional media publishing integrate with new ways of communicating and [...]
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(Go here for part 1) Because it isn’t any fun. The old interface, with the circles and the squares, let you zip around and zoom in on an idea and then when that didn’t work, zoom out on the idea and try something new. I know that for some people, it didn’t work. For some [...]
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