by Dr. Sue Pieper, Coordinator of Assessment I recently read A Life in Bits and Bytes: A Portrait of a College Student and Her Life With Digital Media. The article portrayed a college student who, like many of her generation, is immersed in digital media. Katie Davis interviewed Anna, the student, asking her about the [...]
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by Lorraine B. Elder I just had my first encounter with reblogging and am trying to sort out what I think about it. I discovered that someone had pulled most of a post from this blog into his own blog, displaying the post as if it were part of his site. Here’s my thought process [...]
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by Lorraine B. Elder Okay, Twitter is not really the new Tamiflu, but educational technology and social media are useful tools in combating the effects of sweeping illness. The World Health Organization has declared a flu pandemic, meaning widespread human H1N1 infection is occurring. Many colleges are bracing for large numbers of flu-related absences among staff [...]
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