It has been a long semester, but for many/most people, the end is probably in sight, if not already upon us. (In my case, classes finished yesterday; exams start Monday.)
- Are senior colleagues the most technologically innovative?
- The focus of this post is pre-college (lots of talk of “kids”), but the point surely translates: “21st century educators don’t say ‘Hand it in,’ they say ‘publish it!‘”
- David Wiley takes a look at the sustainability of MIT’s Open CourseWare
- I think this post by Merlin Mann, about why he limits the # of people who get his full attention, may strike home for academics: “avatars are not, in that sense, people.”
- This article on Freenet, and other aggressively anonymous online resources, is a bit alarmist (“allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography”) but interesting for all that.
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This video about Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine makes my Victorianist side all warm-and-fuzzy:
Image by flickr user moria / CC licensed (Definitely click the link–the image isn’t what you think!)
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