Studying the studying study: it’s foreign-language enrollments
About a month ago, the first coverage appeared of a March paper by Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks attempting to pin down changes in college student studying. Since then, lots of people have drawn all sorts of conclusions without reading the paper very carefully. The dominant representation of the paper is the usual declension story, […]
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 […]
“Overcaffeinated value-added enthusiasts” and the public
I’ve developed a fondness for Rick Hess’s phrasing. Whether or not I agree with him, I have to smile when he describes advocates of value-added or bust as “overcaffeinated value-added enthusiasts.” This is in the context of the back-and-forth over value-added measures in the District of Columbia teacher filings (see blog entries by Aaron Pallas, […]
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 […]