This is somewhat outside the purview of what I normally post about but it’s just too important to ignore. Jon Stewart went on Crossfire this week and did a wonderful, passionate, incisive job of ripping the show to shreds.
Here’s a sample from the transcript:
STEWART: Here’s just what I wanted to tell you guys.
CARLSON: Yes. [...]
The site re-design is coming along and should hopefully be up in the first half of this coming week. Posting has been slow this week, partly because I’ve been distracted with other matters (like the site re-design) and partly because I just haven’t seen a whole lot of stimulating material this week. (Hey, it happens.) [...]
The suggestion on blogsperiment that students should be encouraged to create blogs that transcend individual courses fits well with the idea in my last post about approaching the web-enhancing of a university on the departmental level rather than on a course-by-course basis. However, unlike the other idea, this one can be done without a large [...]
The new online journal Innovate has a thought-provoking piece (registration required) on what what can be accomplished when universities roll out web-enhanced programs on a departmental rather than course-by-course basis. What I take away from it is that departments that have committed to cultivating a cohesive approach to instructional philosophy and policies will find that [...]
This post isn’t a litany of the things that I don’t like about RoboDemo, although there will necessarily will be some of that. Rather, it’s my own speculation as to why a smart company with a reputation for good software produced a lemon of a release. Make no mistake about it, though; Robodemo 5 sucks. [...]
