After spending a few hours playing around with the JotSpot beta, I can say that I like what I see very much so far. As a non-programmer who wants to learn a little HTML and doesn’t read manuals very often, I love the “View Source” feature in my browser. I can find a page I […]
Jon Stewart Demolishes Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dumber on Crossfire
This is somewhat outside the purview of what I normally post about but it’s just too important to ignore. Jon Stewart went on Crossfire this week and did a wonderful, passionate, incisive job of ripping the show to shreds. Here’s a sample from the transcript: STEWART: Here’s just what I wanted to tell you guys. […]
Site Update
The site re-design is coming along and should hopefully be up in the first half of this coming week. Posting has been slow this week, partly because I’ve been distracted with other matters (like the site re-design) and partly because I just haven’t seen a whole lot of stimulating material this week. (Hey, it happens.) […]
Blog Your Undergraduate Major
The suggestion on blogsperiment that students should be encouraged to create blogs that transcend individual courses fits well with the idea in my last post about approaching the web-enhancing of a university on the departmental level rather than on a course-by-course basis. However, unlike the other idea, this one can be done without a large […]
Web-Enhancing the University in Departmental Blocks
The new online journal Innovate has a thought-provoking piece (registration required) on what what can be accomplished when universities roll out web-enhanced programs on a departmental rather than course-by-course basis. What I take away from it is that departments that have committed to cultivating a cohesive approach to instructional philosophy and policies will find that […]
Why RoboDemo 5 Sucks
This post isn’t a litany of the things that I don’t like about RoboDemo, although there will necessarily will be some of that. Rather, it’s my own speculation as to why a smart company with a reputation for good software produced a lemon of a release. Make no mistake about it, though; Robodemo 5 sucks. […]
Upcoming Site Revamp
This week, with the help of pMachine Services, I’ll be changing the site layout of e-Literate. The basic design will be based heavily on seriocomic, with some adjustments to fonts and headlines based on the findings of the Eyetrack III project. I’ll also be adding some show/hide code for the body of each post, so […]