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Great Explanation of RSS Readers
This is from a group called Common Craft. It explains how to begin taking advantage of RSS feeds to manage all your blog reading.Click To Play I’ll confess, I’ve started using Google Reader to manage...
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How to use Google Reader
Here’s a little tutorial on using Google Reader, in case you’re starting to think it might be nice to set up an RSS reader to pick up your blogs for you. This is a video I made for a class I’m helping...
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PDF Wish List
I am reading and trying to organize about 200 papers as part of my dissertation research. I have almost all of them as PDF files, and I would not be printing them, except that I need to be able to...
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Why I haven’t bought a Kindle yet
There was an interesting article by Justin Wolfers on the Freakonomics Blog called Puzzling Over the Invisible Economy, about the difference between digital presents and physical presents (we don’t...
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SmartBook of the Future
Buzzing from my thoughts about Kindle yesterday, here’s a little glimpse into what the near future might look like … I am making dinner while listening to a SmartBook on my Google Universal Player. I...
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Extensions to Make Chrome Work for You
If you’re like me, you eagerly tried out Google Chrome right when it came out, but the lack of Flash support was an absolute killer. So now I wander back every once in a while (especially when Firefox...
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Agonizing eBook Reader Choice
I have actually stopped buying all books because I’m so torn on this eBook vs regular book thing. If I’m going to cave and buy an eBook reader, I figure I should stop wasting my money on traditional...
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RSS is a “Really Simple Solution”
I am really pleased to announce I’ll be writing a column for MAA Focus called Teaching with Tech. You can read the first (official) column on the MAA website … RSS is a “Really Simple Solution” to...
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Remembering What You’ve Read
While trying to get all my Kindle devices in re-sync (iPad, Kindle, Android, Laptop, and Desktop), I discovered a feature of the browser-based Kindle app that I wasn’t aware of. Remember the Ebbinghaus...
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10 Things Our Kids WILL Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution
After reading this list of “10 Things our Kids will Never Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution” from Forbes, I was inspired to remind people that technology usually creates just as many...
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As we are currently learning about all of our new technology on campus, and instructors and staff are feeling a bit overwhelmed by learning these new systems, I thought this little YouTube video...
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