Redshirt (fan video for Jonathan Coulton song)

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This month’s edition of The Pulse podcast features a conversation with Mary Ann Gawelek, provost of Seton Hill University, discussing how her institution’s iPad experiment — begun in 2010 — has fared. RPP_102_iPads-in-Education.mp3 via The Pulse: Seton Hill’s iPad Experiment | Inside Higher Ed. Similar:What Does Children’s “Obsession” With Technology Tell Us About What They…

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National Headline Contest 2011

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Reading in the Morning

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