Monthly Archives: October 2007

The Dragon Ate My Cameraman

“Wanted: film production assistant with sufficient power to ward off attacking monsters. Must be able to resist shooting fireballs at your mortal enemy while we are on location.” An amusing Washington Post article discusses the challenges of creating a movie … Continue reading

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Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007)

In the early 1990s, when we were juggling laserdiscs, hypertext, CD-ROMs, gopher, and wondering if this thing called the web would ever take off, the big question was how would all this translate into educationally useful models and materials. The … Continue reading

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We won’t write it for you but…

ResearchBitch.com offers a service to “do the drudgery of research for you.” Claiming that they use a “patent pending search technology — there is nothing quite like it on the web,” they will take an assignment, a phrase, a page, … Continue reading

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Conference: Distributed Ignorance and the Unthinking Machine: The Challenges of Teaching History and Computing

Under the rather provocative title, the Association for History and Computing, UK branch, has gathered a day-long conference that explores the role and uses of information (computing) technology in higher education history teaching and research. Of particular interest is where … Continue reading

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