Teachers around the country are getting into the blogging act. This story from the Washington Post details some of the ways that they are using blogs and, not surprisingly, much of their use of the technology has been like the rest of the world’s–the keep some sort of online diary. Reading between the lines of…
Tag: Academic Commons
The History Blogosphere
Today at the Center for History and New Media, Jeremy Boggs gave a presentation on the History Blogosphere (as of today). This blog entry is being written as he speaks, just to give you an idea of the potential immediacy of blogging. His presentation links are available on his blog. According to Jeremy, Cliopatria is…
Subverting the Archive
After a Spring Break hiatus, edwired is back. A recent story in the Washington Post by Linda Hales (March 11 edition. I’d post the link but their archive search page isn’t working) detailed the plans by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum to turn every web visitor into their own curator. Once the site goes up…
Tests we don’t need, but probably ought to prepare for
The once and former president of Harvard, Derek Bok, published an interesting op ed piece in the Washington Post last week. Bok takes notice of the growing demands for assessment tests in higher education and neatly summarizes the reasons why they are a bad idea–at least in some disciplines. I’m all for assessment in disciplines…