I don’t know about y’all, but I’m ready for Saturday! Even if I do have 3 hours of meetings tomorrow, I can at least be glad *I’m* not shoveling snow this weekend . . .
- How to set up explicit guidelines for using a backchannel (possibly useful for students, too) (via @mathplourde)
- Gordon Gee wants tenure decisions to rest on more than research. The article quotes a faculty member as saying that good teachers are “a dime a dozen,” which I don’t believe is accurate–though I’m not sure reforming tenure ought to be on any college *president*’s agenda. (Via Elizabeth Kissling)
- Is it ethical to create a Facebook profile for a Holocaust victim? (via hmprescott)
- Research by Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, and Kristina Lisa Klinkner suggests that patterns of user behavior more accurately predict successful searches (pdf) than abstract models of “document relevance.” (via Andy Edmonds)
- Nice to see Zotero get some love on Lifehacker
I love the internet: While pulling some things together in advance of the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp Alice in Wonderland, I found this:
Image by Flickr user Wonderlane / Creative Commons licensed
Updated to actually add the video.
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