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A Course on 'Our Patchwork Nation'
Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the "Real" America, by Dante Chinni and James Gimpel, is a book that...
An Amazon Digital Book Rental Plan?
How much would you pay for a monthly subscription to Amazon's digital book content? Writing in this month's Wired, Chris...
Media, Rapid Authoring, Teaching, and 'Where Good Ideas Come From'
We live in a great time, a time when books and media can seamlessly complement each other. I love short...
The MacBook Air
Curse Apple. On the same day that I finish Johnson's amazing book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History...
Amazing Slide Deck From Gates
Here is a slide deck from a presentation that Josh Jarrett, Senior Program Officer in Education, Postsecondary Success at the...
'At Home' with Bill Bryson
While looking for the future at EDUCAUSE 2010 I ended up, thanks to Bill Bryson, being captivated by the past...
EDUCAUSE 2010: The Conference and the conference
I've come to believe that at EDUCAUSE, there is the Conference and the conference. The Conference (large C) is what...
EDUCAUSE 2010: How Gates Changed the Conversation
This EDUCAUSE Conference has felt different from all the rest, and the reason I think is Gates Foundation Next Generation...