I find “giving” grades as a teacher to be as troublesome as getting them when I was a student. Alfie Kohn (1999) in his book …

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I recently read Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture. Keen provides an easy to read …

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At this year’s Wikimania conference I was talking to Cormac about my dissertation and how at the beginning of the 20th century some like …

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It is with interest that I’ve noted Lawrence Lessig’s announcement a career shift away from his work on restoring sanity to the copyright …

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I recently finished Peter Heather’s (2006) The Fall of the Roman Empire. This popular, though no less rigorous, history is widely praised. The narrative …

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One of my favorite categories in my “field notes” mindmap is that of “zeitgeist.” Very little of this material will actually find its way into …

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I’ve been following the discussion at the Web 2.0 Forum with interest. In summary, Michael Gorman of Encyclopaedia Britannica complains that Web 2 …

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I just discovered Python’s awesome dateutil package which implements much of the iCalendar standard, including recurrences! Consequently, it’s trivial to generate a calendar …

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Given a wretched experience with using Microsoft Word for my Masters thesis 10 years ago, I decided to try LaTeX this time around. One might …

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While grading papers I noticed that a student referred to the Wikipedia definition of teleonomy, a concept I have discussed in class, with a quotation …

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