Academe Links March 12, 2007

Presenters University via the Scout Report http://www.presentersuniversity.com/

Virtual Worlds Shakeup

http://pacificrimx.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/virtual-worlds-shake-up/

Resource: A wide ranging collection of education-related feeds http://www.educational-feeds.com/

Mind Mapping Software blog

http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/

"Faculty Salaries Up 3.8%"

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/12/cupa

"Would U. S. News Make Up Fake Data?"

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/12/usnews

"The New Poytechnics"

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/12/poly

When is an Expert not an Expert? Ask Wikipedia http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2007/03/when_is_an_expert_not_an_exper.html

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1923/expertise-on-trial-on-wikipedia

7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7023.pdf

Fun with Student Bloopers

http://higheredchat.blogspot.com/2007/03/fun-with-student-bloopers.html

Newly Redesigned SPARC Website

http://www.arl.org/sparc/

"History, Digitized (and Abridged)"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/business/yourmoney/11archive.html?em&ex=1173762000&en=1553a6b205a395e2&ei=5087

McCluhan Meets Web 2.0

http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/ontarget/2007/03/mcluhan_meets_w.html

Eduserv Foundation MeetingPod

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/sl/meetingpod/

Ageless Project

http://jenett.org/ageless/

Freebase

http://www.freebase.com/

R. C. Rybnikar

Babson College Archives

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http://www.babson.edu/archives

"You might want to send someone to take a pulse – I believe the archivist is dead."

Comment from researcher to Horn Library staffer.