Academe Links April 10, 2007

More Commencement Speakers

http://chronicle.com/free/speakers/?today=04-09-2007

Utilizing America’s Most Wasted Resource http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/04/06/diamond

A Department Skewered

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/09/socialwork

Social Scholarship on the Rise

http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2007/04/social_scholarship_on_the_rise.html

Demo eduCommons OpenCourseWare

http://demo.educommons.usu.edu/

Tool: Loopster

http://loopster.com/

Blogging about Second Life

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/

Blackboard

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1982/those-pesky-patents

Tools: New My Maps via Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103763259662194171141.000001119b4b42bf062c2

7,500 Words on the Irony of Social Computing Degrees Later… http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/7500-words-on-the-irony-of-social-computing-degrees-later/

Resource: The March of Time

http://www.thoughtequity.com/video/home/mot.do

Why I'll never sign up for any Blogger Code of Conduct http://www.intuitive.com/blog/never_sign_up_for_blogger_code_of_conduct.html

Our Entering Class for 2008

http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/04/10/galef

Students give prizes for worst college rejection letters http://www.examiner.com/a-663562~Students_give_prizes_for_worst_college_rejection_letters.html

Misaligned Priorities

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/10/act

Study, Succeed...Survive?

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1989/study-succeedsurvive

Book Review - Control and Constraint in E-Learning http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/04/09/book-review-control-and-constraint-in-e-learning/

Resource/Tool: Digital Book Index

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm

Resource: World Lecture Hall

http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm

Resource: Librivox--Public Domain Audio http://www.librivox.org/

Slow Writing

http://tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2007/04/slow_writing.html

Microsoft is Dead

http://whatisthemessage.blogspot.com/2007/04/microsoft-is-dead-more-like-obsolesced.html

What's The Point of Academic Freedom?

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/04/05/whats-the-point-of-academic-freedom/

R. C. Rybnikar

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