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Blogging in the Classroom


photo by yusunkwon, CC license An interesting article from Ars Technica brings up the idea of using microblogging as a part of classes. Though I havn’t tried it, Twitter seems to be a useless application. Why would I want to talk about what I am doing in 140 characters? And why would people care? Yet, [...]

Learning on the Web


I really am amazed with the web. Learning is just so different now. Instead of having to pay for journal subscriptions, professors are now putting their articles up for the public to view. In addition, institutions are also putting up video recorded lectures of classes. What I take advantage of though, are the wealth of [...]

Second Life


I just tried Second Life, the “3-D virtual world entirely created by its Residents,” for the first time last week. It was surprisingly fun and actually a lot more multi-purpose than I realized. I already have too much going on in my first life to need a second one, but I can see how Second [...]