Monthly Archives: February 2008
Techno-Cheating
Last week we had two speakers on campus that both addressed academic dishonesty and technology’s role in cheating. Most of the examples were what I would consider low-tech because they involved nothing more than a scanner, Photoshop and a color … Continue reading
Domain name by any other name
There was a time when the web wasn’t the only game in town. There were just as many Gopher, FTP and News (NNTP) sites as there were web sites. To distinguish web pages from other technologies, the familiar “www” was added … Continue reading
Use Common Sense
The Christian Science Monitor has an article about teachers striking back against student online activities. Cyberbullying has received a lot of attention recently, but most of it has focused on student-student incidents. Not only are students attacking each other, many … Continue reading
Lessig No Eight
Lawrence Lessig has decided not to run for congress. Check his web site for a video explanation. http://lessig08.org
Lessig’s Free Culture
Recently I added Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture PDF to my iPod. I’ll talk about the iPod as an e-reader some other time. Today I would like to mention some of the high points in Lessig’s book with was released under a … Continue reading