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Warning: Don’t scuba dive The Shallows

July 20, 2010
By Paul Morsink
Carr jet skis with aplomb

There is a delicious irony about Nicholas Carr’s (2010) new book, The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains. At the heart of the book is a distinction between two kinds of reading: on the one hand, sustained, absorbed, reflective reading, which Carr compares to scuba diving and associates with print texts;...
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Running into Space

June 21, 2010
By Andy
Running into Space

Along with a few hundred million others, I have been glued to the World Cup as much as is possible for someone who does not have cable TV and is trying to write two large research papers.  Perhaps you think fútbol is boring, wrought...
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Sketchcasting!

May 3, 2010
By Mete Akcaoglu

I have come across this neat idea while surfing on the net this morning. The video tells it all, but basically what it does is “it emulates the effectiveness of talking to a group of people in front of a white board” as “writing...
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Did you say productive stupidity?

April 25, 2010
By Penny Thompson

This is the time of semester where it’s tough to find the time and energy for an extensive blog post. It’s also the time when we could all use...
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CreativeLIVE!: Free creative education

April 19, 2010
By Sean M Leahy

Great education does not have to cost you a dime!  That’s right, thanks to Chase Jarvis and the folks over at CreativeLIVE.com everyone with internet access is now able...
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Are we ready for a Cloud-based OS?

April 18, 2010
By Mete Akcaoglu
Are we ready for a Cloud-based OS?

Over the last couple of weeks, I constantly find myself opening up my browser whenever I want to open my computer to look for a file. Then, I remembered...
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