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Grad Students and Digital Education
My campus is in the middle of a strategic planning process, and I have the good fortune of participating in the "digital" working group.
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Coursekit First Impressions
Audrey Watters' post inspired me to spend some time building a new Coursekit site.
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My 2 Failed Microsoft for Mac Experiments
2011 was the year that I tried some Apple and Microsoft mashups. They failed.
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Borrowing Library eBooks vs. Buying Kindle Books
I'm intrigued by this whole idea of borrowing Kindle books from my public library.
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4 Reasons I Read Mindy Kaling's Book
If I were with you now, I'd ask you what you are reading. Why did you choose your current book? Paper, e-book, or audio? Library, bookstore or online? How have your book reading habits changed? What do you plan to read next?
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'The High-Beta Rich' & 'Boomerang'
Two book recommendations for Thanksgiving 2011 are Robert Frank's The High-Beta Rich and Michael Lewis' Boomerang. These books go nicely as a pair, as the first seeks to explain the consequences of the financialization of wealth and the second follows this trend to its ultimate conclusion (world economic crisis and default). If you were planning on going crazy on Black Friday at Best Buy with your credit card, you might be wiser to download (buy?) these books and stay home reading.
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Library Borrowing: Kindle vs. OverDrive
Why is the e-book borrowing experience with OverDrive so atrocious? How is it that Amazon is able to make the "Kindle Books from Your Local Library" so easy, while OverDrive makes the process so painful?
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A Conversation With Our Student Hacker Club
Last week I had the privilege of spending time with some members of our student Hacker Club. The goal of this discussion, one of many that we are having with many members and groups in our community, is to identify the digital ideas and innovations that hold the most promise for our institution.