The curse of system transitions
In several cases I’m aware of, an academic library’s transition to a new website has forgotten to include a link to an acquisition-request form, or the location of the form was incredibly obscure. This is true at USF in the last transition and in a few other cases. I’m sure that the omission/usability flub is […]
Diane Ravitch’s disillusionment
From Diane Ravitch’s latest entry in Bridging Differences: Now that the president and the U.S. Department of Education have made it their business to show that federal legislation can and will raise test scores, every release of NAEP data is accompanied by a press statement from the U.S. Secretary of Education that magnifies slight gains […]
Social annotation and the marketplace of ideas
David Rothman has a wonderful idea from the growth of social annotation tools and the development of an open e-book format: How long until savvy writers pester publishers to let them do interactive e-books? — where readers’ comments can appear in relevant places in the texts or elsewhere in the books. Imagine the possibilities for […]
Let’s draw low-income students to college
University of Texas system chancellor Mark Yudof argues that we should give low-income families some clue about their financial aid status before their children’s senior year in high school. As he explains, the details are very tough to manage, but it’s a smart idea.
"Man in Black" (Halloween version)
By Sherman Dorn on October 31, 2007
After the series of photoshopped education “costumes” on Eduwonkette, I should confess that I didn’t put on any costume, or so I thought when I went into work. An undergrad work-study student showed up as a flower child, and another coworker came in orange and black. I thought for a second, looked down at my […]
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