Interesting article from A List Apart on how users want to interact with mobile apps. They classify usage patterns into "Lookup (quickly), Play (I'm bored), Check In, Edit (quickly)."

Video of an Old English poem about a Roman ruin, but shot with newer 20th century industrial ruins. Interesting use of video to literature to "real life"

This kind of visualization not scalable yet, but will it be soon? "Thanks to increasingly cheap, fast and efficient computing power, scientific simulations are now a crucial tool for researchers who want to ask once impractical scientific questions or generate data that laboratory experiments can't. "The human eye can pick out patterns in simulations that are are otherwise hard to describe, and they can do it better than any computer," said visualization scientist Joseph Insley of Argonne National Laboratory ."Plus, with the incredible amount of data gathered these days, it's difficult to analyze it any other way."

Interesting case of instructor getting a low SRDP after he tells class he has identified plagiarism. He suggests peer review instead Turnitin.

I would agree with you about privacy, but if enough students are caught in one incident, word will get around. Ironically, all of the incidents I had to deal with were because of collaboration gone too far. I try to warn students about what I expect ("your own words") , but I think I will be ramping up training on how to really avoid academic dishonesty issues this semester.

Not only does tech allow disperse communities to communicate, but it can also involve and motivate a younger generation to get involved in a minority language.

A huge change in how domain names can be created

Article about how Bhutan is struggling to reconcile Buddhist principles with the modern more secular West within the education system.