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Zotero, Now with Cloud
I was a huge fan of Zotero even when it was a local-only extension.1 Now that it will sync across computers and allow online access to your library (with the 1.5 beta), it’s definitely at the top of my list of research tools. The blog post announcing this update is here. For anyone wondering, I [...]
Continue reading...Lovecraft Rising
Friday, October 31, 2008
This is a bibliographic essay that surveys the scholarship and reception of H. P. Lovecraft’s work from 1990 to 2004. More background information about this essay can be found in this post. Lovecraft Rising – Upload a Document to Scribd
Continue reading...Of Lovecraft and Bibliographies
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Setup: Part One One of the requirements for my Masters in English1 was the standard scholarly research course. The major assignment of the course was to create a bibliography on a subject or author and then compose a bibliographic essay from the findings. I chose to research H. P. Lovecraft because I’d been interested in [...]
Continue reading...Zotero + IA
Monday, December 24, 2007
If you haven’t already heard, some exciting news (and two clarifications) from Dan Cohen: I’m pleased to announce a major alliance between the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and the Internet Archive. The Zotero-IA alliance will create a “Zotero Commons” into which scholarly materials can be added simply via the [...]
Continue reading...Researching the Bunny Man
Monday, August 13, 2007
My girlfriend and I were a little restless yesterday, so we took a drive out to a local “urban legend” hot spot: Bunny Man Bridge. The legends that collect around this site vary widely, attributing the origin to an escaped convict, a murderous teen, or perhaps just a local nut-job upset about trespassers. [It's the [...]
Continue reading...Research 2.0 Presentation Notes
Friday, March 2, 2007
I’ll be delivering a presentation at the NVWP Language & Learning Conference about using emerging online technologies to facilitate research. I’ve constructed a page on my wikispace to help with the presentation/discussion. I proposed and prepared this presentation somewhat selfishly: I wanted to learn more about the current state of online research … and what [...]
Continue reading...Helping Students Cheat
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between teaching knowledge and teaching skills. As the internet changes how we find and use knowledge, it becomes increasingly clear that what we should be teaching are the skills: research, critical analysis, writing, reading a variety of texts, speaking and presenting, etc. When I hear teachers bemoan the [...]
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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
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It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]
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