What happens when a communications teacher experiments in videotaping “talking head” versions of his lectures and the students rate them poorly? He learns from that experience how to improve his face to face lectures. Can a chemistry teacher, an early pioneer in posting full lectures online, really save time by using Facebook to communicate with [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Technology continues to transform lectures
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged teachingandlearning lectures on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Archimedes Palimsest
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is now available, and under Cretive Commons licensing. Well done: “Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work, involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of [...]