Liberal Education Today

Clickers on NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101343866 A National Public Radio (NPR) show explores clickers in the classroom. The report begins by describing personal response systems in a...

Using Web 2.0 for political activism: the anti-stimulus package movement

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/anti-stimulus-t.html The LA Times offers a good introduction to the "tea party" movement, in terms of its use of Web 2.0 to organize for a political...

Amazon retreats on Kindle 2 text-to-speech

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1261092&highlight= Amazon altered a feature on its new Kindle 2 device, in response to pressure from copyright holders. The...

Peter Suber gives open access talk at Harvard

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/02/26/berkman-peter-suber-on-the-future-of-open-access/ Peter Suber, philosophy professor from a liberal arts campus and open access advocate, gave an overview of...

Connecting Google Apps and Moodle

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/02/lms-and-google-apps-first-comes-love.html An integration between Google Apps and a course management system has appeared. It's a single sign-on for...

An educational game experiment: the ELI ARG

http://connect.educause.edu/page/content_organic_tab/ELIARGWebcast/48177 An experiment in computer gaming was mounted last month, as the ELI conference hosted an alternate reality game (ARG). Now an...

NITLE 2009 Camp proposals: last day is tomorrow!

http://campnis.blog.nitle.org/2009/01/06/calls-for-proposals-are-open/ Calls for proposals for NIS Camp events will close tomorrow, Friday, February 27th. This includes the DSpace User Community...

Beta version of new Apple browser released

http://www.apple.com/safari/ A beta version of a new Safari Web browser has been released by Apple. New features include, in the words of one review, a new Top Sites feature that enables users to...

Voicethread Moodle integration step

http://voicethread.com/blog/#20090220 Users can now embed Voicethread files within the Moodle course management system. The tool is a Moodle filter, in open source, and freely...

Mobile device learning game: Mad City Mystery

http://lgl.gameslearningsociety.org/games.php#madCity Mad City Mystery is a teaching game which uses handheld devices to support a story. Players rely on smartphones to gather and share information...