Singularity and Education
Michael Gallagher I was thinking a bit about my previous post here on the difficulties experienced in certain developing nations when it comes to scholarship. Mostly this is due to access issues…
Digital Education
Music for 3.22.2010: Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate, those masters from Mali
I feel like I have talked about them a few dozen times, so I will spare you any biographical information. If you don’t know about Toumani Diabate, the great kora…
Scholarship in developing nations: INASP
Further to my previous post about the difficulties encountered by many researchers in developing nations, I feel it is necessary that the situation is not all that bleak. In fact,…
Via CNMTL at Columbia University: New Virtual Forest Module
I suppose for the amount of times I post about the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CNMTL) I should probably work there. Truth be told, on this…
Al Smith, Prohibition, and the Reassurance of Gravelly Voices
In case you aren’t aware, the Internet Archive is an excellent resource in dire need of an update. As a repository of archaic and archival resources, it is second to…
AP, Asia Correspondent: Chinese Ships from the 1400s off the coast of Kenya
This article from the Associated Press via Asia Correspondent brought out the armchair historian/Indiana Jones style of archaeology in me. “China and Kenya plan to search for ancient Chinese ships…
Digital Media: Subway Maps as Tools for Teaching History
You can file this post more under ‘teaching ideas’ than anything particularly original. If I were to wait for something truly original to conjure itself in my head, then I…