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15 octobre 2014

Automattic Possibilities

By Eric Stoller. You have probably never heard of Automattic. Founded by Matt Mullenweg in 2005, Automattic is the company behind the popular blogging platform - WordPress. Automattic is a rather unique company in terms of overall size and structure. According to their "work with us" webpage, Automattic employees work "from their own home or office" and are "spread out all over the world." Once a year, Automattic brings its employees together for an in-person gathering to share ideas, meet face-to-face, and foster a truly unique working culture. Read more...

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15 octobre 2014

The Reader Has No Clothes

By Barbara Fister. Chances are, you've heard the troubling news that the new version of Adobe Digital Editions is a privacy train wreck. Nate Hoffelder broke the news at The Digital Reader. The two key issues (apart from the fact that this software transmits an awful lot of data to the mothership about what exactly you are reading, including which pages you read and at what IP address) is that it hunts for all of the ebook files on your reading device and sends information about them to Adobe. Read more...

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15 octobre 2014

Math Geek Mom: Math and Computer Skills

By Rosemarie Emanuele. If you ask my daughter, she will tell you that I am old. I mean, really old. In fact, I am so old that I don’t really understand her “ipod”. I also admit that I am not instantly comfortable with whatever new Learning Management System our college may decide to use this year. But, if I had to, I could run a regression with a limited dependent variable, one in which the dependent variable takes on only particular values, such as zero or one, or a continuum of values that are truncated at zero. Read more...

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15 octobre 2014

A Matter of Degree

By Herman Berliner. I was dusting my laminated diplomas a few days ago and was reminded that neither my bachelor’s degree nor my PhD has a major listed on it. In both cases, the field was economics; I never missed having the major area listed but I also would not have minded having the field listed on both. Read more...

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15 octobre 2014

Ideal Readings

By Oronte. There’s an anecdote about James Joyce that says he pointed at an unknown tradesman seated on some steps in Dublin and said he wrote Ulysses for that guy.

Updike, famously: “When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teenaged boy finding them, and having them speak to him.” Read more...

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14 octobre 2014

Intentional Goal-Setting and Declaring Your Own “New Year”

By Jason McSheene. We all know how the new academic year begins: You tell yourself, “This will be my best, most productive year of grad school yet!” But now many of us are more than a month into the fall term, and it’s a good time to ask: What are you really doing differently to ensure this outcome? Has that start-of-school energy dissipated? To get it back, one key strategy is to outline your goals and pursue them intentionally. Read more...

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14 octobre 2014

Moving Your Classroom Overseas

By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham. Back in the spring of 2011, I was planning a summer of preliminary dissertation research in Shanghai but coming up short in ways to fund my trip. My advisor suggested I get in touch with the director of a study-abroad program that I had previously attended in China, and ask if he needed any temporary instructors for the summer session. Read more...

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14 octobre 2014

Explain It to Your Grandmother

By Michelle Lavery. No matter whether Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, or Ernest Rutherford said it, the sentiment above rings true for researchers in all disciplines from particle physics to ecopsychology. We’ve all been at that Thanksgiving dinner, with those misguided questions and blank stares. However, becoming able to communicate your research to your grandparents has many benefits beyond the dinner table. Read more...

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14 octobre 2014

Are MOOCs Killing Our Conference Presentation Attention Span?

By Joshua Kim. I’m just starting a new MOOC on Coursera, An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching.
The first week is terrific, if a bit video heavy. No worries, as I watch my MOOC video (MOOCideo?) at 2X speed. Double speed actually works well for teaching videos. Read more...

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14 octobre 2014

Will You Read My Long E-Mail?

By Joshua Kim. There are two types of people in the world. Those who are happy to get a long e-mail from me. And those who are not. (The first category is, shall we say, an exclusive and select group).
I’m a long e-mail writer. One of those folks who causes waves of panic when a one of my e-mails makes it past your spam filter and into your inbox. All I can do is apologize. Read more...

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