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Web 2.0 and meetings, meetings, meetings . . .

dr.curry @ August 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet

So today is one of THOSE days. You know what I mean, right? It’s back to school time, and so we as faculty get to spend the day in meetings. So as I sit here listening to the same old things that we seem to go over every year (new faculty, policies and [...]

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Me in four slides

dr.curry @ August 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet

So a few weeks ago Dan Meyer, who writes dy/dan, held a four slide contest. The purpose was to see if you could represent yourself completely in four slides. Now the problem for me is that I have NO TALENT when it comes to visual representation, but I want my grad students in my online [...]

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Facebook for CMS?

dr.curry @ August 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Susan (?) at Ubernoggin proposed using Facebook as your CMS. She wrote:
Getting tired of the Learning Management System on your campus? Ever look to see how infrequently your students actually log in to see their assignments etc? Let me tell you, it’s pretty darn infrequently. So why not create a course site on a [...]

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Turnitin.com

dr.curry @ June 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Since Oklahoma State has recently bought Turnitin for the campus, I found this blog post (and accompanying article) to be interesting. It seems that some students are suing Turnitin for copyright infringement.
It will be interesting to see how this one pans out . . .
I talked with my superstar grad student, Mark Jones, about [...]

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Once again Dave Wiley gets it right!

dr.curry @ June 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet

I tell you, I like knowing smart people. I was reading up on back posts from David Wiley’s blog, and I ran across this gem:
<grump mode=”on”>
I’m feeling grumpy today. Must be the jet lag.
Why do people think that open source licenses are a kind of magic pixie dust? Here’s a little thought…. Let’s call [...]

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