#tcpgh13 Amanda French video…. Bail out of any s…

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#tcpgh13 Is getting started. The conference focuse…

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@THATCampPGH is getting started. I spent a half ho…

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My new MacBook Air took 10 minutes to render a vid…

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I just gave in the 2013 Day of Giving at http://t….

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When I tried to intro my 11yo to “Bohemian Rhapsod…

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While doing a mic check, a student launched into a…

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A Catholic Case Against MOOCs

Catholic universities can be true leaders in higher education. Instead of following the hype, they can reassert the belief that education is a moral enterprise that develops human dignity and promotes social justice.MOOCs not only fail to accomplish those goals; they undermine them. And if large Catholic universities pursued strategic aims through MOOCs, they could…

Computer grading will destroy our schools (says a humanist whose appeal to the humanities will be ignored by technologists)

Sadly, the people who are spending (and receiving) the huge sums of money to support the dehumanization of essay-grading are not the ones who will be swayed by an appeal to the humanities. Once the use of automated essay grading becomes common knowledge, the implicit message will be hard to miss. For any self-aware, warm-blooded…

Loved seeing A Comedy of Errors @setonhill

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