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October 21st, 2009

Nook: An eReader for Philosophers?

So, just yesterday the tech community started freaking out (in a good way) about Barnes and Noble’s new eReader – […]

October 19th, 2009

Google Wave for Philosophers

I  got a Google Wave invite last week. Now that I’ve played around with it for a bit, I’m sold. […]

September 20th, 2009

Ethics Bowl 2009 Regional Cases

I coach an ethics bowl team. The Northeast Regional Cases are up, but people have been having problems with the […]

September 18th, 2009

Philosophy on the Today Show

Sarah called me yesterday and said, “There’s some philosopher on the Today Show, and Meredith is asking him about whether […]

September 17th, 2009

Drop.io App for Android Phones: Preview

This is exciting. An Android App for Drop.io is in the works! Academics with Android phones should be very excited […]

September 16th, 2009

WordPress as a Replacement Course Management System

Blog platforms are so good and versatile that educators have all of the resources we need to run a course […]

September 2nd, 2009

Take Attendance with Android Phone and Google Forms

Google Forms are turning out to be an awesome for academics. I use it for the Philosophy Journal Surveys. Last […]

August 31st, 2009

Use Firefox Word Count Plus to Check Student Work

I have a course blog. Students are required to post 2 substantive analysis posts on the reading for the semester. […]

August 31st, 2009

Facebook Used to Catch Exam Cheating

This story showed up on Tech Crunch about a week ago. I’m just now getting around to reading it. It’s […]

August 24th, 2009

Have Students Create Your Gradebook Spreadsheet with Google Forms

If you’re using a spreadsheet application to record and calculate grades, then each year you have to get your list […]