happy birthday to me from delicious, kind of
I don’t have an iPhone, so there are many web sites I’d like to use on my phone that just don’t look very good. Delicious has always been one of those middle-ground sites that looks okay because there...
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This blog will never die. It will never die because of this post. Written in, I think, in about 15 minutes this post was just a quick thing to share a new tool that I was (and still am) really...
View Articlevisual topic exploration – for reals?
Remember back when I was sad about the demise of Ebsco’s visual search? I got over it, but I never replaced it with the beginning composition students. They still explore in Wikipedia, and a lot of...
View ArticleEmerging Technology and IL Teaching Workshop, part 1
In the next two days, I’ll be giving a series of talks as part of this workshop in Seattle. Here are the supporting materials for one of them – a short technology demonstration about our Flip video...
View ArticleEmerging Technology & IL Teaching Workshop, part 2
This was the second day’s talk – about project management without the time and institutional resources to do it full-time. These slides are more text-heavy than my usual, mostly because the talk was...
View Articlesnowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Because the work I have to do is stressful — it’s a dogs biting (not really) bees stinging (not really) feeling sad (not really either) type of time Tom and Lorenzo’s analysis of the costumes on Mad...
View Articlecream colored ponies and crisp apple strudel
Another essentially no more than bullet points post — I have a lot of formal writing I have to be doing now, so this will end at some point. So, cool stuff… via Dave Munger (twitter) Alyssa Milano...
View ArticleZotero group bibliography assignment
I decided before the start of this term, the first term in which I would be teaching a credit class in almost eight years (and I’m teaching 2!) that my Library Skills for English Majors class would...
View ArticleWhile using my iPad for article-reading, a blog post about Storify appeared
It has been ages since I talked about a new tool/service like this but Shaun came home talking about Storify the other day and it sounded good so I got myself an invite. Basically, it lets you pull...
View ArticleDIY infographics
So who made it Create Your Own Infographics week and didn’t tell me? Well, there might not be any reason why they’d think to tell me, but I would still be kind of interested if there WAS some group...
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