Kibits is an iOS app (and related online service at kibitz.com) that creates ad-hoc, social mini-networks, and enables sharing of a wide range of materials within these groups, including chat messages, photos, videos, links, locations, notes, and even documents – the latter through direct iCloud and Dropbox integration (in this area, it clearly beats the [...]
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I want my Dashboard back!
March 8, 2012
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In Mac OS X Lion, the default settings change the way in which the Dashboard behaves. In older OS X versions (Leopard, Snow Leopard), the Dashborad widgets were “suspended” on a transparent layer that could be activated to float on top of the desktop (or any running app), with either a keyboard press (of the [...]
Read moreMLA on Tweets: too little, too late…
March 3, 2012
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Moden Language Association, the professional association of academics (of which I was a member for over a decade) in the fields of language and literature, despite its name is usually far from “Modern,” and its prescriptive guidelines for citing research in academic papers – often illogical, and arcane – tend to lag behind current technologies and [...]
Read more Getting Ready for ELI 2012 Annual Meeting in Austin, TX
February 12, 2012
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I am getting ready, and very much looking forward to participating in this year’s Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) 2012 Annual Meeting / Conference in Austin, TX. One of my UW-W colleagues and I are presenting the overview and results of our technology overview for new students (called UW-W TechQuest). The complete presentation slide deck (PDF, 34+ MB), [...]
Read more Going Through (Lion’s) Trash…
February 11, 2012
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The newest, 7th episode of my new UW-W podcast (Let Lion Roar!) is now live on iTunes U. In this short screencast, I take a quick look at different ways to deal with Trash in OS X Lion. In the podcast: deleting files using just keyboard shortcuts (no mouse or trackpad needed); restoring files from Trash [...]
Read more Flipped Classroom Redux
February 11, 2012
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I commented on the idea of a flipped classroom on this blog not long ago. But the publication of a new handout in Educause’s useful 7 Things series has inspired me to revisit the issue.
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Let’s reform education!
What’s the French word McNugget sold on eBy for for $8000? Well, in this article, “a piece of chicken-scented cardboard shaped like the first president of the US.” The whole article is hilarious (and not only because it’s in French). It also contains a splendid idea for promoting history in schools: the author proposes using [...]
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