I’m proud to announce that the first episode of the Digital Campus podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. A combined effort of Dan Cohen, Tom Scheinfeldt, Ken Albers, and myself, Digital Campus is a twice-a-month discussion of digital media and education. Our first episode is “Wikipedia: Friend or Foe.” Check it out, subscribe…
Tag: Academic Commons
Mapping the World
Last year I wrote about the Worldmapper website—a site that helps users visualize the relationships between different data sets and world geography. In the January/February 2007 issue of The Atlantic, P.J. O’Rourke describes one way that Worldmapper might be used to answer a question about the contemporary world—in this case, how one might use the…
Tagging Takes Off
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…