Liberal Education Today

Lessons from Google's project management

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15ping.html?_r=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=all A recent New York Times article explores how Google decides to end projects, and offers some interesting...

MapQuest nearly tied with Google Maps

http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2009/02/google_maps_edges_closer_to_ma_1.html Travelers' standby Mapquest is nearly tied with Google Maps for popularity, according to Hitwise. The...

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts launches

http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/ A Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts recently launched. This project, based in the University of California, Los Angeles' Center for Medieval and...

Student-created campus IT iPhone app

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3608/students-at-georgia-tech-create-unofficial-campus-iphone-application A Georgia tech undergrad created an iPhone application aimed at connecting users...

Teaching with Twitter: one sample assignment

http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2009/02/twitter-assignment.html One Twitter-based assignment comes from a University of San Francisco class. The tasks are broken down into detail, and involve both...

A liberal arts campus library on Facebook

http://hamiltoncollegelibraries.blogspot.com/2009/02/become-facebook-fan-of-burke.html One liberal arts campus library has put itself on Facebook, for very classical reasons. The Burke Library...

Teaching with blogs: one class watches and reads

http://blogs.middlebury.edu/thewire/ AMST0277 (Spring 2009, Middlebury College) is a seminar on The Wire, and a blog is the class's communication platform. The professor posts notes and prompts for...

Using social media to raise funds for campus

http://www.sacbee.com/education/story/1615690.html?mi_rss=Education A California campus is exploring how to use Web 2.0 for fundraising. The University of California, Davis's Web editor for...

Literary journal opens up archive to Web

http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/02/08/archives-opened/ Thirty years of the Virginia Quarterly Review are now open to the browsing public. Much of the content is free. (via MetaFilter)

EU: computer games are good for kids, and played by adults

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51A60H20090211 Computer games are not harmful to children, according to a new European Union study. "Videogames are in most cases not dangerous...