All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Electoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier…:Electoral geek supreme. Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems. [Salon.com]

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off he goes.

Technology Threatens Colleges With Extinction, Ex-President Warns:

This was in my inbox this morning from techrhet from The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Educause 2004, held here last week, attracted more than 7,000 people from 43 different countries, scores of colleges, and hundreds of tech companies. At this meeting of the higher-education technology group, the tech talk is thick, the tech knowledge vast, and the tech obsessions are almost a religion for some. All of the attendees appeared to be fully human.

But some of the chief information officers here might have left the conference more worried than they were before attending. James J. Duderstadt, president emeritus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, opened the conference not with a pep talk but with rather unsettling predictions. He said the future of colleges and universities was more than uncertain in the digital age — it might be downright threatened.

Permanent subscription-based link to the article.

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i wonder if it will.. i doubt it

Online Debate: A Case Study Combining Traditional Strategy and Online Technology – Shawn M. Love, Instructional Technology and Distance Learning:
Instructional Designers are constantly faced with new challenges. In a volatile technological environment, online resources seem to lead instructional designers into unknown territory. Often, instructors will attempt to merge online media and instructi

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also interesting.

Clark Aldrich’s Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation – Learning Circuits:
The more I build, evaluate, and discuss educational simulations, the more I realize we need to establish some better terms. Specifically, there are six criteria that are emerging as critical, and ultimately not just to simulations but all educational e

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this is pretty interesting…..

Clark Aldrich’s Six Criteria of an Educational Simulation – Learning Circuits:
The more I build, evaluate, and discuss educational simulations, the more I realize we need to establish some better terms. Specifically, there are six criteria that are emerging as critical, and ultimately not just to simulations but all educational e

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this is pretty interesting…..

:: Yonkis.com :: :
http://www.yonkis.com/mediaflash/eeuu.htm

funniest one yet

New Blog about Teaching Philosophy… ….:

New Blog about Teaching Philosophy….

…here, and featuring, so far, some graduate students and faculty connected to the University of Connecticut and Baylor University.

[Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates]

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i sort of teach philosophy… i teach theory…..

what barry says:

http://www.knife-party.net/flash/barry.html

interesting video

i voted.

I support John Kerry. (See Technorati).

Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure:
http://www.mcphee.com/amusements/current/11377.html

this is probably just an older version of the librarian action figure… no?