Reflections on Teaching with Social Media – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education

As I’m a little more than a month out from the semester’s end, I’ve been reflecting on different aspects of the semester: things that worked well, things that didn’t work at all, and things that could be tweaked for the future. In particular, I’ve been musing on how I integrated social media into my classes. [...]

Day of Digital Humanities – 2010

Dear humanities computing folk, I am writing to invite you to participate in the second “Day of Digital Humanities 2010.” On March 18, 2010 individuals working or studying at the intersection of the humanities and computing or related professions will document the events of their day. We would like to invite you to participate. See [...]

My Foray into Filmaking – Video of Horizon Report from ELI 2010 at EdTechPost

This comes from Scott Leslie, an educational technologist who works as a manager of Client Services in Open Education for BCcampus, a province-wide post-secondary agency in British Columbia. I think it is a good summation of this year’s NMC Horizon Report, specifically the emerging technology portion. My Foray into Filmaking – Video of Horizon Report [...]

Academic software for research papers | Mendeley

Academic software for research papers | Mendeley. I don’t know if anyone has heard of this yet, but it appears to be another piece of software along the lines of Zotero or End Note/End Note Web. It’s a free research management tool for the desktop and web. If anyone has heard of it, or tried [...]

100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators | Online College Tips – Online Colleges

100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators | Online College Tips – Online Colleges. The link above looks interesting at least for perusal if not for checking out some of the online journals that are listed. Some of these journals might be familiar and others less so. Enjoy!

The Wired Campus – Atmospheric Research For All — Sort Of – The Chronicle of Higher Education

This article discusses a new Open Access journal for Atmospheric Sciences called OpenSky. The paragraph below is the last paragraph of the article, which sums up some thoughts on Open Access that I thought were relevant: But such closed journals will probably lose some authors. The two organizations’ journals used to be be the leading [...]

Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told

Via The Chronicle of Higher Educations “The Wired Campus:” WASHINGTON, D.C. Public access to research is “inevitable,” but it will be a slog to get to it. That was the takeaway message of a panel on the role libraries can play in supporting current and future public-access moves. The panel was part of the program [...]

New Guide Describes Models for Open Access Journals

I’m not sure that this fits here, but it came across my email a bit ago: October 08, 2009, 04:30 PM ET New Guide Describes Models for Open-Access Journals By Jennifer Howard Want to take your scholarly journal open access but confused about how to pay for it? The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, [...]