The most recent report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project provides a first glimpse of the growing importance of tagging by American Internet users (for reasons related to their mission, Pew only surveys Americans, so this glimpse is limited to Americans). Their data tell us that more than one-quarter (28%) of all American…
Bad Habits? What Bad Habits?
I spent a good part of today in a meeting with some senior leaders of community colleges in our general service area discussing ways that our graduate program in higher education might better meet the needs of their institutions. One of the people in attendance said that their strategy for the past decade or so…
Cambodia, Here I Come
I just found out today that I’ll be spending my spring break teaching a four day workshop on teaching history and using technology in that teaching in Phnom Penh. This is something that has been in the works for a while, but was only confirmed this morning. I owe huge thanks to Teachers Across Borders…
My Students Weigh In
I alerted the students in my Western Civ course to the decision by the folks at Middlebury College to ban Wikipedia from being cited in essays. Here’s what some of my students had to say in response.