My computer died this week, so I’m operating from backup and scrambling to keep up. But this story did grab my attention. The English typing Egyptian blogosphere (here’s looking at you Arabist and Beheyya) have both been paying close attention to the return of Muhammad ElBaradei to Egypt and to his nascent campaign for presidency. […]…Continue Reading The Future of Egypt: ElBaradei?
Month: February 2010
Segue from Segue Usage Analysis: Language Learning Resources
Part of the Segue from Segue project involves analyzing how faculty and students at Middlebury have used technology for teaching, learning and research. Last week, I published an overview of Segue Usage. This week I have compiled notes on my review of curricular resources that the Language Schools and departments have developed with Segue and […]…Continue Reading Segue from Segue Usage Analysis: Language Learning Resources
Segue from Segue Focus Group Sessions
To help find platforms to replace Segue, the Library and Information Services (LIS) Curricular Technology team will be coordinating the formation of Segue from Segue focus groups. The goal of these focus groups is to understand how faculty teach and how they use the technologies currently available to them at Middlebury and beyond.
To ensure focus […]…Continue Reading Segue from Segue Focus Group Sessions
Usage Analysis: Language Learning Resources
The Language Schools and language departments have long been innovators in the use of technology. I have reviewed many of the language learning resource sites that have been created over the years and drafted a description of some of the ways Segue has been used for language instruction, see: Language Learning Resources
I invited others to […]…Continue Reading Usage Analysis: Language Learning Resources
Snow Day
First off-apologies to all who were looking for the Middlebury weather station today. As many of you know, we lost power on campus for a couple of hours this morning, and that wrecks havoc with the weather station. We don’t lose any data, as the weather station has battery backups to keep logging. The network […]…Continue Reading Snow Day
Electronic Note-taking and Grading Workshop Summary
Jason Mittell (Film & Media Culture), James Morrison (Political Science) and myself lead a workshop for faculty on taking notes and grading digital documents yesterday that was well attended (see: Moving Away from Paper: Useful Practices for Electronic Note-taking and Grading Assignments).
Jason and James described how they assigned and collected students papers. Both used email […]…Continue Reading Electronic Note-taking and Grading Workshop Summary
Supported Web Browsers
I was asked as a member of the LIS Website Team to put together a quick post on supported web browsers for our site. In general our guideline for supporting a browser is to keep support for it for as long as the browser’s manufacturer is supporting it. This means we will try our best […]…Continue Reading Supported Web Browsers