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5 Reasons to Choose the iPad Mini for One-to-One Programs
Are you currently running or contemplating a one-to-one tablet program, (where every student gets the same device), at your institution? What tablet are you recommending or requiring?
Teaching With Twitter
The last several semesters, I have been incorporating Twitter into my teaching style and lessons, and it has quickly become an inextricable part of my teaching tool box. Twitter allows me to stay in touch with my students quickly and easily, it fosters discussion in the classroom, and it helps to create a community among my students. I am able to engage students 140 characters at a time, and it makes sharing cat pictures way easier.
Hey, Bartender: Dissertation Actualities and Atrocity Stories, Part 2
Guest writer Steve Davenport returns with the second part of his essay.
UVenus 2012 Edublogs Awards Nominations
Our writers have nominated the following blogs, bloggers, learning tools, tweeters, hashtags, etc. for the 2012 Edublogs Awards:
Rethinking International Student Orientation
More than orientation for international students, institutions that welcome students from abroad need to consider international orientation for their professors and national students. We tend to put the burden of bridging the cultural divides on the international students — they are in a new country and expected to adapt. After all, they made a choice. But when this accommodation moves in only one direction, much is lost.
An Addendum: A Fifth Category of U.S. Privacy Law
With the holiday in the rearview mirror, I had time to reflect on the four categories of privacy law proffered in the last blog. One more came to mind as I was driving up I 95 near D.C., appropriately so, because it is about administrative law. Allow me, for the record, to copy and paste the ones that I included in the last blog and add this one to it, with a little description. It matters because administrative law may come to play a more significant role in governance of Internet companies that either the legislature or the judiciary.
Cliff time
Notwithstanding the impact of Sandy, I have much to be thankful for, including this year’s very welcome Thanksgiving Day break. But what I am most thankful for is not yet a done deal but rather a new feeling that suggests we will avoid the fiscal cliff.