Great article, “Science 2.0—Is Open Access Science the Future?”, from Scientific American about the move toward more open science from several different quarters. One example comes from scientists at MIT, who have created a wiki for sharing lab data and more at OpenWetWare.
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Science 2.0
Posted in anything 2.0, science news, technology on May 2, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Getting Away from Googliath
Posted in technology, tips on March 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Exalead is a great search alternative to Google. The advanced search gives you easy access to your favorite targeted search techniques (e.g. filetype, site, inurl, intitle).
Use the “on a given site” option to search for org and edu sites.
There are also nifty narrowing options:
And it’s worth taking a look at “More choices,” as it gives you options to exclude along with additional sorting and narrowing choices.
Happy searching! Better yet, happy finding!
Cell Phones Are for the Birds
Posted in fauna, science news, technology on October 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »
According to an article in the Telegraph, MIT researchers are using cell phones to call owls.
When Eben Goodale wants to count the birds, he places a call that triggers phones in the forest to play, via speakers, pre-recorded owl calls, such as hoots and whistles.
Territorial owls raise their heads and approach what they think may be an intruder. If they respond with a hoot, the phones transmit the sound back to the “owl project” website.
Hey, Con Bio students, spark any thesis ideas?
iCranky
Posted in higher ed, technology on October 7, 2007| 1 Comment »
There’s a lot of talk in higher education circles about where technology fits in education these days, with the continuing expansion of online courses and degree programs and continually evolving tools, from mp3 players to social networking sites.
In an Inside Higher Ed column entitled, iCranky, Laurence Musgrove,an associate professor of English and foreign languages at Saint Xavier University, is another voice in favor of judicious use of technology in education.
What our students need is not more of what they come in the door with. They don’t need more of the same in the same way they got it before. They need to be confronted with people who talk about ideas that matter. They need to become people who can confront and talk to other people about ideas that matter. They need to sit in a room of people and learn about humanity.
Can University Publishing Be Saved?
Posted in education, technology on August 3, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Inside Higher Ed has a story on Ithaka’s new report, University Publishing in a Digital Age.
The report and its authors are suggesting that university presses focus less on the book form and consider a major collaborative effort to assume many of the technological and marketing functions that most presses cannot afford, and that universities be more strategic about the relationship of presses to broader institutional goals.
Read the full report.
Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops
Posted in technology on May 4, 2007| 1 Comment »
From the May 4 New York Times (online):
LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader not only found a way around it but also posted step-by-step instructions on the Web for others to follow (which they did). . . .
So the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse.