By Joshua Kim. How many times have you heard someone on the other end of the phone line, or across the counter, say: “Sorry, my computer is running really slowly today.”
In the past few weeks I’ve heard this statement from a rental car agent, folks from the phone and cable company, the people who change your address at the electric company, and from a person at the bank that I use. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Why is it that smart people have so much trouble thinking clearly about the future of robots and jobs? It has become intellectually fashionable to worry about our coming jobless future. A world where smart robots do the work that once delivered a paycheck. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. This weekend I came to a realization. If a member of my family asks me a tech question that I immediately don’t know how to solve, there is a good chance that I’ll respond in a less than pleasant manner. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. In 2005, I returned to Italy for the first time as a so-called “mature” woman to teach Internet Law at the MiNe Program, Universite Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. While there I reflected on the relationship between the emergence of information technologies and traditional culture and values of the Catholic Church. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. This was a momentous week for me. On Monday, I counted 5 years of blogging at Inside Higher Ed. It was the summer of 2010 when Scott Jaschik asked me if I would write for IHE. I was excited to write for what was then, and still is, my favorite higher education news site.
By Natalie Houston. Do you have an old non-working computer stashed away somewhere in your garage, attic, or closet because you’re not sure how to dispose of it? Do you have a stack of CDs with old backups on them that you no longer need? An old printer or monitor? Power cords or connector cables that you don’t use. Read more...
By Natalie Houston. In my last post, How to Dispose of Old Electronics, I mentioned some different options for wiping a hard drive on an old computer that you are preparing for donation or recycling. Deleted files can be partially or fully recovered, so if you have files with personal data you should wipe the hard drive. Wiping is done by overwriting the data sectors on the hard drive in multiple passes. Read more...
By Natalie Houston. Anastasia recently wrote about a variety of Chrome browser extensions that can make your workflow more productive or more fun. Extensions can also be used to add themes or features for accessibility. Read more...
By George Williams. Bootstrap keeps you from re-inventing the wheel every time you start a new web site or create a theme or skin for a content management system. (Note: Bootstrap is not a place for absolute HTML beginners to start; you’ll need to be pretty comfortable with HTML & CSS and, to some extent, JavaScript. However, you by no means need to be an expert in all of these.) It’s a pretty complex framework, but fortunately there are a number of helpful tutorials online. Read more...
By Anastasia Salter. Last week, I was fortunate to attend the Games+Learning+Society conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference brings together interdisciplinary scholars, designers, and other practitioners working with games for learning, and thus is a great space to find new inspiration for experiments and games in the classroom. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
