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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!
Blog sample for teaching purposes (Anthologize use)
Anthologize is a WordPress plug-in that allows one to select and edit blog entries for a book-like output: PDF, ePub, RTF (for further editing in a word-processor). It's in alpha form, still pretty rough, but it allowed me to select a sample of my entries for my undergraduate history of education class. The reason? No, […]
Horowitz is becoming a little more clever
Cue voice of Don LaFontaine: He’s back, he’s got a bionic brain, and he’s coming after the Victorian specialist in your department. As Inside Higher Ed reported this morning, David Horowitz has a new schtick. You may remember him from the last decade, pushing the Academic Bill of Rights, which appeared in legislative bill form […]
Problem #37 with critical thinking
The last entry on trends in college-student studying time is a little of what Jonathan Zimmerman calls the historian’s scold (“you didn’t get that right!”), but moreso it’s an attempt to fight a popular availability bias, the thumbnail narrative of declension. As I was trimming my beard this morning (I do that every three years […]
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 […]