Of late there has been more and more discussion of faculty members using Facebook.com in their teaching or simply as a vehicle for connecting with students. An article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education by Sara Lipka raises a few interesting questions about this practice, including whether it is “creepy” (as one student put…
Tag: Social Networking
Steal This E-Book!
The latest edition of Digital Campus (#16) is up and available for your listening pleasure. In this edition, Dan, Tom, and I discuss the merits of and opportunities posed by the new “digital book readers” like Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader. We also take on the issue of Facebook’s latest entry into the world of…
World’s Largest Photo Archive?
If flickr.com is not the world’s largest photo archive, I’d like to know what is. On November 10, 2007, the two billionth image was uploaded to the flickr website. As vast as the holdings of the various national archives around the world are, I would be amazed to learn that any of them held more…
Saving YouTube Video for Teaching
I’ve already written a couple of posts about how YouTube videos can be very useful teaching resources. But there are two potential problems with relying on videos from such a website. The first is that as teachers we have no control over whether those videos will be available when we want them next time around….