High Tech in Higher Ed News- The Daily Biotech Pulse: Deciphera Cancer Drug Gets Priority Review, Fast Track Designation For Soligenix, Revolution Medicines IPO - Benzinga February 13, 2020
- Putin's Truth in the Era of Post-Truth - Modern Diplomacy February 12, 2020
- One Of Tesla's Largest Investors Sold 99.5% Of Its Stake Before New Year's Rally - Benzinga February 4, 2020
- Sunburn — The morning read of what's hot in Florida politics — 2.4.20 - Florida Politics February 4, 2020
- Coursera launches college completion pathway - Inside Higher Ed January 24, 2020
- Sunburn — The morning read of what's hot in Florida politics — 1.22.20 - Florida Politics January 22, 2020
- Huawei and the Trump debacle: Everything that's happened so far - Android Authority January 16, 2020
- U.S. News Releases Its Rankings Of The Best Online College Programs For 2020 - Forbes January 14, 2020
- ‘Techlash’ Hits College Campuses - The New York Times January 11, 2020
- Google quietly expands in city in wake of Amazon's stumble - Crain's New York Business January 10, 2020
Category Archives: Teaching
Khan Academy and Duolingo
For those who don’t know, Khan Academy is a website of over 3200 short videos on such topics as math (from basic all the way up to calculus), physics (from just a little above my head to way above my … Continue reading
Categories: Crowdsourcing, Data Mining, Games, General, Session Proposals, Social Media, Teaching
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Session Proposal: Making It So that You Can Fake It
One of the challenges of operating in the digital humanities is a reliance on often unreliable campus infrastructures; let’s spend some time hacking digital humanities advances/innovations (especially for the classroom) such that the backups and alternatives are easy for students … Continue reading
Categories: Session Proposals, Teaching
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Session proposal: Using university library archives and digital collections for student projects
The Mervyn H. Sterne Library at UAB hosts UAB Digital Collections (www.mhsl.uab.edu/dc/), including oral histories, student-created ethnographic films, images, letters, and other documents related to medical history; StoryCorps interviews, and archives of a number of UAB publications. Although we don’t … Continue reading
Categories: General, Libraries, Session Proposals, Teaching
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Session Proposal: On Beyond Blackboard
Many of us have been saddled with outdated Blackboard Systems for Course Management at our campuses. What system do you use? What are the alternatives? How do we organize and deliver our courses without confusing and overwhelming our students?
Categories: Session Proposals, Teaching
Tags: Classroom Management Systems, Teaching
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Workshops (so far!) at THATCamp HBCU
THATCamp Workshops are the heart of any THATCamp (un)Conference. We all love to learn something new, or learn something better. We are planning to offer Workshops on Thursday and Friday Morning (Please see schedule). These are the Workshops we have … Continue reading
Categories: Digital Literacy, Open Access, Teaching, Workshops
Tags: Evernote, Google Tools, LaTex, OneNote, THATCamp HBCU, Wordpress, workshops, Zotero
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