December 2005
Sunday 25 December 2005
- Seton Hill Blogoversity - The Christmas issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran an excellent, front-page feature story on educational blogging, called "Freedom of Speech Redefined by Blogs". Featured prominently is our college's New Media Journalism program, led by my colleague, Dennis Jerz. It's really a great -- and quite accurate -- piece.... (20:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 14 December 2005
- Digital Gumbo - In my research for a presentation on "Teaching with Film" this week, I came across Richard H. Dery's excellent article, "Digital Gumbo" (available at the thoughtful and often humorous webzine for teachers, Faculty Shack). In it, Dery talks about his design of an online tutorial in literary "character" that utilizes... (21:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 December 2005
- Norman Who? - Pop quiz (for extra credit points): "What group invaded the British Isles from France about a thousand years ago (one point), and in what year (one point)?" For the (in)correct and (sad but) true answers, see Tenser, said the Tensor. *** Hilarious, but I felt a little guilty laughing at... (05:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)