Take that, Wikipedia

November 1, 2007

Wikipedia gets a bad rap in academia because of the nature of a wiki allows for any commoner editing an article and potentially resulting in thinning down the article of interest you are reading.
The instructor in this news story used Wikipedia in a whole different way by making an assignment for her students to contribute [...]

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PowerPoint Killer?

October 31, 2007

Educators have bored their students to death with it…
Sales Engineers have hounded us for money with it…
Conference presenters have put us to sleep with it…
Its inventors insist that it exist in our computing environments…all in hopes that we pay them money just for the privilege…
So what is this ghastly beast? And how can we stop [...]

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