Monthly Archives: November 2009

Anatomy of a Search

If there’s anything that I think needs to be learned through experience or through directly witnessing the experience of others, it’s online information-seeking. I don’t think you can give a useful general description of how to search that a student … Continue reading

Posted in Academia, Information Technology and Information Literacy, Production of History | 7 Comments

I For One Welcome My New Infrared Faucet Overlord

Interesting post and discussion at 11d on Sandra Tsing Loh’s latest essay in the Atlantic Monthly, which I read on the train this week. I thought the essay was terrible for a variety of reasons, many of them stylistic. There’s … Continue reading

Posted in Academia, Books, Consumerism, Advertising, Commodities, Domestic Life, Miscellany | 12 Comments

If You Must

Via Margaret Soltan, an interesting thread on PowerPoint in the classroom. I still think that PointPoint is a scapegoat of sorts, that bad pedagogy that uses PowerPoint was bad before PointPoint or even personal computers were involved in higher education. … Continue reading

Posted in Academia, Information Technology and Information Literacy | 7 Comments