Digital Campus, the podcast I do with Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, is officially one year-old this week. Our 23rd episode is up and available for your listening pleasure and all three of us are pretty happy to have made it through a whole year of podcasting. Given how busy we all are, I’m particularly…
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The Open Professor
Stephanie Rosenbloom wrote a very interesting piece in yesterday’s New York Times titled “The Professor as Open Book.” In the article, Rosenbloom neatly captures the tension between a desire by college and university faculty members to be more open to their students and the desire by those same faculty members to maintain some semblance of…
Tweets From the Past
Tom Scheinfeldt at Foundhistory.org wrote a post yesterday about the ways that Twitter is helping CHNM promote Omeka and create communities of practice for this new platform. In Tom’s post, he called my attention to an excellent post on the uses of Twitter in teaching. I’m not a Twitter user, largely because I already get…
Open Access Scholarship
In the latest episode of our Digital Campus podcast, Tom, Dan, and I discuss what print on demand and public access publishing means for the future of academic publishing. Prior to our recording session, Dan interviewed Yakov Shafranovich, the creator of PublicDomainReprints.org a website that allows users to create printed versions of books scanned in…