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Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Wikipedia and the Republican primary: How the candidates' pages changed during the nomi... - 0 views

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shared by Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang on 12 Apr 12
     
    This is a module that traces the evolution of the Republican candidates' Wikipedia pages during the course of the primaries. Some of the yahoo user comments at the bottom of the page are quite entertaining too
Sandy Baldwin

A Type of Nostalgia - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Sandy Baldwin on 01 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Sandy Baldwin on 01 Mar 12
     
    Fascinating article from frequent Chronicle tech blogger on why some academic scholars continue to use the typewriter. The primary answer - nostalgia - is both a mood (in the sense of a feeling one has in relation to history and technology), a political statement (opposed to forward modernization), and - perhaps - deeply related to the "literary" or writing (notalgia as why one writes).
Rachel Henderson

E-textbooks beyond Apple's iBooks - The Washington Post - 0 views

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shared by Rachel Henderson on 28 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Principles of Biology, a constantly updating science textbook
  • The book, which will constantly be updated with the latest scientific information, will cost $49 for students and will be available through a Web browser, rather than requiring a certain device.
  • For now, the books will only be in English
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  • “They don’t have to carry anything around, no apps, no devices, no matter where they are they have access,” he said
  • Savkar said he knows that e-textbooks will eventually be the primary texts for classrooms and believes that there’s a five- to 10-year transition before these texts are widely adopted.
  • Rachel Henderson on 28 Feb 12
     
    While I'm not a fan of reading online/on a computer screen-yet-I am interested in this transition from paper to digital texts (textbooks). There seems to be several advantages, such as constantly updating and affordable ($49 for a science textbook?!).
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