Pedagogue blog

I think I may have mentioned wikibooks here before, but just in case I didn’t, I have now. Free books for education. Nice.

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This, I hope, is the beginning of a new trend in technology in education: “Goldsmiths College, University of London is offering new graduate research students starting their courses in September 2005 the unique opportunity to have a lecture specifically focused on Creative Commons copyright during induction week!”

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I set up another edublog specifically surrounding a training session that I am in the process of putting together for Fordham: Weblogs in Education 101.

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Many of our colleagues are apprehensive about technology in the classroom.

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Check out this Masters Thesis on Blogging. I need to give this pdf a read when I have a chance. Too bad the top of that site is giving me error messages.

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This tool could prove useful for non-confidential office-hours or group discussion projects: Launch the Userplane Webchat. It’s free, but ad-supported.

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Here’s a guide to teaching turing by actually programing your own Turing machines.

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A very useful

Download.

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This looks like an interesting study:

U.C. Berkeley, birthplace of early search highflier Inktomi and the school where Google CEO Eric Schmidt got his computer science doctoral degree, is bringing together roughly 20 faculty members from various departments to cross-pollinate work on search technology, said Robert Wilensky, the center’s director. The principal areas of focus: privacy, [...]

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Read the entirety of this post. Here’s an excerpt:

In 2004, they required the HP Compaq Business Notebook nw8000 of all incoming Freshman, at a pricetag of over $3200 each. Doesn’t matter if it’s the best price, or the most suitable machine, or what the student is familiar with: they all have to have identical machines.
Why? [...]

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