Monthly Archives: January 2008

Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age”, 4th panel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Panel on faculty collaboration. Scott Williams and Adam Johnson (Scripps and Harvey Mudd) on the IONiC/VIPEr (Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource) project, collaborative project in inorganic chemistry. Decided to look at how to improve pedagogical and collaborative approaches to inorganic … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in a Digital Age”, 3rd panel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Third panel is on the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom. Alexandra Juhasz of Pitzer College is talking about her use of YouTube in a class, both viewing and production work. (You can see the work under the tag … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in a Digital Age”, 2nd panel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

The panels split into two different sessions, so I’m in a session on developing open-source collections and resources. First presentation is Robert Kieft and John Anderies talking about putting a reference source of Quaker biography into a wiki format. Bob … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in a Digital Age”

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Some notes from a NITLE meeting on scholarly collaboration and digital resources that I’m participating in today. First panel, the panel I’m presenting on, is on collaborative writing of scholarship in online formats. Kathleen Fitzpatrick started it off with a … Continue reading →

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One-A-Day: John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Timothy Burke

My next project, if I can put it together, is going to focus on Africa as a whole during the Cold War. So I’ve been diving into the general historiography of the Cold War as much as I can manage … Continue reading →

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One-a-Day: Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Timothy Burke

I really want to like Lomborg’s work more than I do. I’m completely open to and interested in an argument that a smart cost-benefit analysis of conventional environmentalist policy recommendations suggests that money is best spent on completely different kinds … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 4, 2008 by Timothy Burke

This post makes me feel as sad as anything I’ve read in years.

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Competency as a Cultural Value

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Earlier this week on NPR, I heard a man-on-the-street segment about the current election cycle featuring three Southern women, two Texans, one a former New Orleans resident who left after Katrina. The first woman is an assistant manager in a … Continue reading →

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One-A-Day: A Crack in the Edge of the World

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Simon Winchester’s non-fiction is the equivalent of really good popular or genre fiction, it seems to me. Kind of the Stephen King of non-fiction writing. Eminently readable, a clean and accessible style, a good choice of subjects. The Professor and … Continue reading →

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The Same Game

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Raph Koster has an interesting post covering many of the major game releases of 2007. The gist of his argument, as I see it, is that underneath their graphics and storytelling, games like God of War 2, Bioshock, Mass Effect, … Continue reading →

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