Category Archives: Teaching

Blogs/Wiki Workshop

By alex | Published: 9/23/2005
Not a lot of people are local readers, but if you happen to be one, I’m doing a workshop for the Educational Technology Center at the University at Buffalo on Weblogs and Wikis this coming Wednesday (9/28) from 10am to noon. Register (for free!) at the ETC site. I’ll post related materials as soon as… […]
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Avast, Waisters!

By alex | Published: 9/19/2005
Ahoy, me buckos! I be a mite late on the orders for the weeks to come. Arrrrrr… Here be a few tales, to be followed by more come high water, or to be sure I’ll be feeling rope’s end from the lot of ye’. (Aye, it is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.) September 28: […]
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Next couple weeks

By alex | Published: 9/19/2005
I‘ll have a few more weeks up later in the week. This coming week provides an example of why I wanted some flexibility. While we will talk about Baeyer’s definition of information and its place in science and society this week, we are going to put off the idea of information more common to information […]
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The perfect blog entry

By alex | Published: 9/13/2005
A number of folks participating in the two grad seminars this semester have asked what their blog postings should look like. As always, I prefer to be surprised, but perhaps a better way of asking that is how to improve your posts. This has less to do, I should note, with how to make a […]
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