Roy Rosenzweig
T. Mills Kelly has the best remembrance of Roy Rosenzweig today. Rosenzweig was a pioneer in digital history who began the Center for History and New Media (see the original page). (Hat tip.)
Just plain offal
University Diarist was on the nose: SIU President Poshard’s plagiarism been excused, according to a cover-up panel: These instances resulted in “inadvertent plagiarism.” … [After Poshard corrects his dissertation,] the committee recommends that no further action, such as a formal hearing, be taken. So now “everyone else was doing it” and “I didn’t mean to” […]
I (heart) The Little Professor
Why I love Miriam Burstein’s The Little Professor blog: If you sow dragon’s teeth in order to reap soldiers, what do you reap after sowing apostrophes? Editors, maybe? I needed that, on a day of traveling.
So, um, … how about writing about MY book?
Kevin Carey wrote yesterday: At any given moment, there’s a limited amount of room in the general consciousness for books about education, and over the past few months a lot of that space has been occupied by Linda Perlstein’s new book, Tested. Which, as I explain in my review in this month’s Washington Monthly, is […]
Caribbean Frost
By Sherman Dorn on October 10, 2007
In the honors class I’m teaching, I’m trying some without-a-net activities each week to connect technology with social and cultural history. One recent week, I asked students to describe the aesthetics of everyday objects. In a plurality of cases, students discussed the commercial choices involved in consumer-product design–i.e., that the aesthetics are shaped as part […]
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