This is just too cool for words. Cole Camplese, a professor at Penn State, has figured out a way to use his iPod to help him grade many more (short) student writing assignments very quickly. Here’s how it works:
The professor assigns a short reading to the class. Every student is expected to respond with a [...]
For several reasons, I have been resisting the temptation to post about Duke’s now-famous decision to give an iPod to every first-year student. To begin with, it’s been covered to death, so I didn’t think that just posting the link was doing a particular service to anyone. Second, others have already written about at least [...]
Yup. I finally broke down and got myself an iPod. Kathy has had one for about two years now but I was holding out for two more developments. First, I wanted enough disk space–at least 20 gigs–to carry a significant amount of data as well as my music, since I intended to use it as [...]
So, here’s a puzzling bit of argumentation from Steven Strubel:
However, my hunch is that Apple will continue to prevent its employees from blogging for the foreseeable future so that it can maintain its mystique. This approach may work for awhile, but the employees in Cupertino will eventually revolt, snub their noses at policy and begin [...]
Well, the conversation continues, with an interesting twist. This time, one blogger has explicitly responded to a request for his input from another blogger. The semantics here are interesting, since the original blogger (Dave Hyatt) didn’t directly ask for comment. Instead, what he wrote was
I’ll be eagerly awaiting the responses of both Tim and Eric [...]
