What if the students say…*yawn*…to blogs? An article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about teachers in Shanghai enthusiastically wanting to use blogs. The students weren't… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Blackboard and the US Patent Office, Part 1 I was -just- making my way off the computer when I ran across this press release: WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2006--Blackboard… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 1 Comment
Voice of America: making English "special" An article on page A15 of today's New York Times (also found here, registration irritatingly required) alerted me to the… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 4 Comments
Planning to be spontaneous (a gentle warning to readers: I am writing from a Starbucks in Newark Airport at 6:15 a.m. having taken the… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
I hate to kick Microsoft when they're down, but… Check out this article and the accompanying video of a Windows Vista voice recognition demo gone wrong. Ambient noise? I… Posted on: July 31, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
A report from BlogHer We came, we spoke, we found an audience at BlogHer...although to be honest we weren't if we would have any… Posted on: July 30, 2006 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Open source software: for students, by students. Last summer, the Google Summer of Code 2005 debuted as a project designed "to introduce students to the world of… Posted on: July 29, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 4 Comments
It depends on what the definition of is, is. According to a New York Times article featured in yesterday's Wired Campus newsletter, Blackboard "has all the earmarks of a… Posted on: July 19, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 1 Comment
Defense Department to pay for Foreign Language Classes From story on NPR that aired on July14th: Howard University in Washington, D.C., is one institution where the Defense Department… Posted on: July 19, 2006 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Skype vs. the hackers Yesterday, one of my favorite tech / gadget blogs featured a blurb reporting that "a team of Chinese engineers" (read:… Posted on: July 15, 2006 By: Ryan Brazell With: 0 Comments
