Free Yourself from Oppression by Technology
My 11 year old daughter and I recently discussed the impact of comma placement, pauses, and intonation on meaning. Hence I was immediately attracted to the title, “Free yourself from oppression by technology”, because it can be parsed 2 ways. […]
eLearn Magazine Highlights from 2009 and Expectations for 2010
Happy 2010! eLearn Magazine has had a wonderfully productive year. With 2009 over, here is a review of some of the highlights and our plans for 2010. Our biggest news in 2009 was the addition of Jill Duffy, senior editor, […]
Be a Better Online Student
10 New Years Resolutions for Online Students, by Jamie Littlefield, includes practical advice that can help anyone who works from home ever (and who doesn’t?) as well as online students and faculty. Her advice is particularly important for new students […]
The Top 16 Ideas in Google’s Project 10^100
Google started a project to collect “ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible”. The top 16 are posted. The only one I gave much thought to was to make educational and course materials more accessible […]
Using Twitter for Role Plays
I’ve speculated about the use of blogging by Agatha Christie and Thomas Jefferson, but not about their use of twitter. I was fascinated to read What Lincoln Would Have Tweeted, not just to speculate further about how a person who […]