Inside Higher Ed shares some results from a recent survey of college students about their uses of technology. Among the more interest findings: Instead, students appear to segment different modes of communication for different purposes. E-mail, Web sites, message boards and Blackboard? Viable ways of connecting with professors and peers. Same for chat, instant messaging, [...]

A media professor has begun teaching a class on YouTube. Not so unusual that this would happen, given the fact that YouTube has been around for awhile now. In fact, it is kind of cool that it is finally happening. What I have found more interesting is that as I have been catching up on [...]

Well, it had to happen someday. Out of curiosity, today I upgraded my Word Press install, against the sage warning from Fantastico that I shouldn’t if I had messed with any of the CSS or themes on my blog. I ignored the warning. As you can see, however, I was able to find a nice [...]

Digital Planet, and excellent program that is on the top of my podcast playlist each week (subscribe to it here), offers us some insights from Google about the future of their work with education: GOOGLE SCHOOL Could Google expand its empire into education as well? Google is expanding into many fields such as advertising, mapping [...]

It’s been about a year since I’ve seen an article like this pop up — perhaps it has to do with going back to school and all the negative ideas that technology can bring in relation to the state of our language and culture: The walls between the school and the cellphone or computer screen [...]

Things have been absolutely crazy the past two weeks, but that has been good for me especially as I get back in the swing of teaching. As I begin the semester, there are a few things that I’ve been thinking about that I want to capture here and come back to think about more later. [...]