What happens when students assess the work of scholars in a public, i.e. online, forum? To what degree to student assessments have an impact on professional reputations, on promotion decisions, or on resource allocations? I’ve been mulling this question over for the past week because about a week ago I received a somewhat testy email…
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History Collages and Image Mining
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about how students can begin to sort through the huge databases of historical images now available online. Image mining is still in its infancy, although already we are starting to see some interesting work being done in the field. This work promise to eventually let us do…
Really? Really, Really?
How many “reallys” does it take Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales to describe how he feels about Edward Owens? Three. In an interview on a recent edition of the podcast Tech Therapy, Wales (who admitted up front he hadn’t heard of the work my students had done), said, “Things like that really, really, really annoy me.”…
One year, four months, nine days
At last there is resolution on the course I and several colleagues proposed to our General Education Committee that was designed to meet the (now revised) information technology requirement for graduation from George Mason [earlier posts]. One year, four months, and nine days after the course syllabus was approved by our College Curriculum Committee (and…