A writing instruction describes her recent exploration of increasing student engagement in a writing class by using digital media. Vance explains: “As technology shifts, so does our means of persuasion; if students do not explore this, they will find their skills quickly out of date.”
This meant several approaches, including a public class blog. Blogging appealed [...]
In the competitive world of Web browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to lead, according to new statistics from Net Applications.
The aggregate of all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) – 6.0, 7.0, and the new 8.0 – constitutes more than 60% of the browser field. Alternative browsers, both commercial and open source, continue to compete. [...]
Could Facebook become a leading portal for news consumption? One observer thinks it already is, and will grow in that role.
Facebook is the web’s most popular subscription-enabled place to read news; be it from links shared by friends or by becoming a Fan of news organizations like Facebook is now encouraging. That doesn’t mean that [...]
Michael Spalti shares his thoughts on the NITLE Summit’s theme, “Advancing towards Liberal Arts 3.0.” Spalti, a member of the Summit planning group and associate university librarian for systems at Willamette University, draws on his experience to provide this perspective:
In “Why Liberal Arts 3.0?,” Chip German suggests that we need a definition of the liberal [...]
How can instructors use Twitter? One teacher, and author of a book on learning communities, offers this observation: faculty can quickly form peer learning networks.
I could look inside the minds of motivated peers to learn about the new projects they were undertaking, the research reports they were studying, and Web sites they were exploring. As [...]
