An Outsider Calls for a Teaching Revolution

 

This is a repost of an article published on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website. The citation is provided at the end of the post. If you haven’t visited the websites for Khan Academy, MITx, TED Talks, or even iTunes University you should spend some time looking through all the high quality, free content that . . . → Read More: An Outsider Calls for a Teaching Revolution

Standalone Zotero 3.0 client released

The good folks behind the creation and development of Zotero have finally released their much anticipated standalone client. Previously, in order to use Zotero’s citation collection, reference management and cite-while-you-write functionality you had to use the Mozilla Firefox web browser exclusively. Finally, Zotero is no longer a Firefox-only service but now works with three . . . → Read More: Standalone Zotero 3.0 client released

Phishing and Facebook

Around this time of year as our students learn all about their new email accounts and staff begin to prepare for teaching we often see a spike in malicious “phishing” emails.  These messages purport to be from some form of authority, usually our local helpdesk and they encourage staff and students to visit a . . . → Read More: Phishing and Facebook