Timely Snow

I’ve got a new 15” Macbook Pro, and so life is taking a productivity hit. I got it because the School of Education here is heavily Macintosh-dependent, there seem to be issues with running Vista on laptops (although I’m enjoying it on my desktop machines), and they’re noticeably cheaper than the Thinkpads I’ve used the [...]

Informed Comment…courtesy of Juan Cole.

Adventures in Ethics and Science: What (not) to do when the system is broken.

Although it was back in the dim mists of the Cretaceous era, I don’t think I ever harbored fantasies of wreaking revenge on my graduate advisors and professors. The closest I ever came (as far as I know) to experiencing this from [...]

In a few weeks I’m supposed to give a talk about the use of wikis and weblogs in teaching and research. Which would be easier if I knew more about them. This tool will certainly be used in what I do, though, so I’m storing the link here:

Jon Udell: Visualizing change
This is wildly cool stuff. [...]

I’m listening to a very interesting talk by Bob Bain, a historian of education who followed up a long career as a high school history teacher by starting a second career as an education professor. I won’t try to summarize the talk, except briefly, but take some notes on the thoughts it stimulates in [...]

How-To Information – Citation Management
As long as you are a University of Michigan faculty, staff, or student, you have free access to a RefWorks account. If you want to use EndNote or ProCite, you or your department must purchase a license. Note: Some departments may already have licenses.

I just upgraded my copy of Endnotes, but [...]

I’ve spent the last 24 hours digging out from a computer crash, with more success than usual. But it’s not a fun experience. I’ll describe what happened and what I did, more to remind me than for any other reason.

With apologies for a bad pun
I’ve been considering ways of putting together secure accessible backed-up storage of our growing video archive. We have an older Dell server, which is fast and adequate for many purposes, but limited in storage (I’m not sure, but perhaps 100 gigabytes on SCSI drives).

Given that we do have that fast [...]

Magdalene Lampert is giving a talk entitled “Language and Teaching: What is There to Teach?”

Lee Shulman is giving a talk entitled “From ‘Psychologizing the Subject Matter’: A Century of Thought on the Specificity and Generality of Teaching and Teacher Education.”