Author: busynessgirl

Laptops in the Classroom

Over at elearnspace, there was an interesting blog post called “Hey You, Pay Attention!” I tried to comment on it, but apparently you have to register to do that and I can’t figure out how. Nor could I find a...

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Managing a mountain of email

Most likely, if you’re involved in higher education, you get a lot of email. During the week, I get between 50 and 100 emails a day, which seems like a lot, but I recently read that some people receive (and deal with) over...

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Is Open-Source Education Next?

We now have numerous options for open-courseware from various colleges and universities: course materials and (sometimes) video lectures from professors. Cost to people who use these materials? FREE But really, it is the tuition...

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Textbooks 2.0: An Oxymoron?

I’ve been following a conversation on one of my ListServs for textbook authors about strategies for “beating” the used book market while keeping textbooks affordable. There were two recent pieces in the New...

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Leibniz Calculating Machine

One of my students, Cameron Flint, spent part of the semester constructing a virtual tour of Leibniz’s Calculating Maching using software called Blender (his honors project for Calculus).You can see his virtual rendering...

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Mathmaticious

I don’t think this video needs much commentary. Thanks, Rose, for the suggestion. Let’s hope he’s as good at math as he is at making a music video – it’s pretty clever.

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