The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week that in a new 1,200 page bill before Congress “is a small paragraph that could lead distance education institutions to require spy cameras in their students’ homes.” Many are concerned about the…
The upgrade to Excel 2007 brought with it some great new features to make managing data easier. When creating Excel-based gradebooks in the past, we would have had to do a lot of manual set up to create design features…
IMAGE: created using www.wordle.net I just discovered Wordle, which is a free, web-based tool that allows you to make your ideas visual. You can paste in a paper you’ve written, a journal, an article, or even a URL to your…
We recently gave a class for a client on managing across generations. In preparation, I put together some trivia from decades past and present. It reminded me of how far we’ve come in terms of technology, but our educational models…
For my friends at work (or not) on their dissertations, I found this article on the 43folders blog with some great ways to overcome writer block. It is more than a few years old, but I imagine the techniques still…