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OMG–helicopter parents!
Some observations as my daughter watched her friends head to college in the past week and then moved in herself: One friend of my daughter reports that her roommate at a public university brought a flat-screen television along with a microwave and mini-fridge. At first, my daughter thought that this was stereotypical university overindulgence. No, […]
iSRS, iPad flashcard app–yes, useful
I've been playing around with an iPad app that's very similar to Mnemosyne. iSRS is available in an iPhone/iPod version for free or premium, with a premium iPad version ($4.99). There's a program to synchronize "card" sets with a Mac or Windows computer. Primary use I can imagine? Learning my students' names!
Hello, URL
And as of 11:27 pm, August 7, 2010, the blog is switched over to WordPress. There are a few things to double-check, primarily seeing what the Feedburner feed looks like tomorrow morning, but the process was fairly painless. Comments are now WP-native, and I think there’s no way to recover the JS-Kit/old Haloscan comments. I’ll […]
Anthologize: a blog-to-book tool
Thanks to the folks at George Mason U.’s Center for History and New Media, who put on the One Week | One Tool “digital humanities barn raising” last week, and the dozen digital-humanities coders and other scholars who worked hard last week, the world now has Anthologize, a WordPress 3.0 plug-in that will allow someone to pull […]
You’re telling me I can’t teach everything I know in a semester?
I’ve been revising my plans for the upcoming fall undergrad history of ed class based on a bunch of things that have been percolating in my head this summer, including the need to recertify it for my university’s gen-ed program (or at least apply for recertification), the Utah Tuning project in history and what we […]