Educause 2005 Conference “Transforming the Academy: Dreams and Reality” runs October 18-21 in Orlando. Let us know how many Tablet PCs you see in presentations and among participants.
Scott Lemon is searching for a new blogging tool. What do you suggest he consider?
Lora offers interesting comments about how chimpanzies communicate about different foods. She also reports the good news that Tulane University’s 5,000 primates lived through Katrina. And you thought her only interest was a Tablet PC?
ISVs writing Tablet PC software for early education of chilren with disabilities may find use in reviewing goals of the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children, especially the effort to serve as a primary resource for high-quality, evidence-based information and development of a set of core competencies.
Thanks, Anne Davis, for pointing me to Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids. It offers a soft introductory description for students K and up who can read and are computer literate. I wonder how a Tablet PC ISV might add value to this clever site.
Evelyn Rodriquez offers a thoughtful essay about clashes in worldviews in marketing. She takes exception to the lack of respect and consideration given to other people’s views by marketers and promoters, including by many writing and responding to blogs. Withut these words, she seems to ask “Where’s the thoughtful conversation needed to demonstrate the value of a product?
Rick offers an amusing story of the lack of credible sources in ongoing discussions about Wikipedia and credibility of sources. Hmm.
Mrs. Ris describes how she has come to appreciate teaching to tests. I find many of her comments refreshing and thoughtful.
Two upcoming events will jumpstart a new campus Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS), a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) that will be based at NCSA. The goal of CHASS is to foster innovation by engaging humanists, artists, and social scientists in sustained collaboration with their colleagues in computer science, engineering, and high-performance computing and communications in order to develop tools to accelerate research and education. Wow! Another world class effort to involve computing in advanced education.
Scott McLemee reviews Jerome Karabel’s The Chosen. McLemee asserts it is the big meta-academic book of the season — a scholarly epic reconstructing “the hidden history of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton,” as the subtitle puts it. Karabel, who is a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. The review is a useful view of admissions for family assisting applicants preparing to apply for entrance into highly select higher education institutions.
