We must tell undergraduate majors in the arts and humanities that graduate school is but one option, which should be researched carefully in advance. And we should be working just as hard to help those students explore careers that take their values, interests, and skills into occupations that can begin immediately after graduation.
No More Digitally Challenged Liberal-Arts Majors - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views
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"What we really want right now is someone who can build and maintain our website and publicize our work appropriately using social media. We want graduates who can generate content, of course, but they also need some technical skills. And most of the time we can only hire one person. Do you have anyone like that?"
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I take it as a matter of faith that the world needs the kinds of skills and interests that we cultivate in our students at liberal-arts colleges and at other institutions with similar missions. But the challenge remains: How do we best help take those passions into places where they can have the most impact?
MOOCs: Will Online Education Ruin the University Experience? | New Republic - 0 views
Anyone with a Smart Cover Can Break into Your iPad 2 - 1 views
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Anyone have a Smart Cover on their iPad 2?
Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 3 views
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Ties in with Cori Wong's discussion at #LASTS11
THATCamp - an unconference about technology and the humanities - 2 views
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I thought you would be interested in seeing this. There are a variety of different camps focused on the use of technology in the humanities. They are organized as unconferences, meaning that topics are often spontaneous and the events are very cheap. Look at the list - there is one on pedagogy, one on games, etc...
Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia - Josh Sternberg - Technolog... - 0 views
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This is a good way to illustrate the huge shift in perspective faculty need to face.
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Sarah Smith-Robbins, professor and Director of Emerging Technologies at the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University, teaches a course called "Social and Digital Marketing." "We go over the theories behind social media: why do things go viral, the social theories of how people act and how they communicate to a network, or one person at a time, and why do certain tools work they way they do for us,"
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Too bad the focus is marketing here.
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Professor Vorvoreanu agrees: "I don't think you have the credibility of doing research, of writing about, unless you get to really know that culture. And the best way of knowing the culture is to actually be immersed in it."
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Social media find place in classroom - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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Among educators, Eric Sheninger is something of a social networking hero. The principal of New Milford (N.J.) High School has nearly 12,300 Twitter followers (his handle: @NMHS_Principal). He and his teachers use Facebook to communicate with students and parents, and students use it to plan events.
Crowdsourcing Transcription! - 2 views
Using LaTeX on the iPad: A review of the best and worst apps for writing mathematics. |... - 2 views
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Description and evaluation of latex apps for ipad.
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I use latex to typeset all my academic work, rather than using Word. One big advantage of using latex is it's handling of math. In political science a large number of people (including at least 6 faculty in our department and half our grad students) use it as their word processing app of choice. You create a tex file and "tex" it our process it. There are a handful of latex editing apps for the ipad (tex files are just ascii so code be produced using other apps). There is no way to process it on the ipad. However, there are some websites that will handle the processing (scribtex.com) or presumably you can do this with some app that gives you remote control of your mac and run it after putting it in dropbox. I'll be investigating this further.
eG8 summary - 4 views
Culture Machine - 2 views
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An open journal in the humanities. Perhaps this is a venue in which we might consider submitting material in the spirit of Stuart Selber's questions about publication.
Gary Hall - About - 1 views
