One of the very first posts I wrote for this blog was about visualizing information and some of the new online tools that had cropped up to make it a little easier to think about the relationships between data–words, people, etc. Interesting as they were, those tools were all very limited in their scope and…
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Teaching Students to Commit Fraud
Regular readers of this blog will know that not long ago I taught a class called Lying About the Past in which my students created a fictitious historical figure — Edward Owens, the “last American pirate.” That class generated a fair amount of comment in the blogosphere and has resulted in some very interesting conversations…
Google, eBooks, and Teaching
Google has at last announced the long- (or at least sort of long-) anticipated launch of Google eBooks. With more than 3 million books available online and with a potential library of many, many millions more as a result of their scanning project, Google is offering up a service that I think will turn out…
Facebook and Sex Trafficking
[NB: This post contains content that might not be suitable for all ages.] Regular readers of this blog will know that this semester I’m teaching a course on the history of human trafficking. One of the students in my class wrote a very good paper on the impact of technological change on the sex trafficking…