Unless you are taking a course on using a specific MS Office application, such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you don't really need to pay for MS Office to read documents your instructor posts on Blackboard. Here are a few MS Office alternatives that you can download and use for ...
Since I only use gmail for email now, my inbox can become pretty messy with all of the discussion lists I'm on. I already label discussion list mail with zListName. (The z is so the label will go to the bottom of the label list.) Today I discovered that if ...
I'm still fascinated by asking the question why we teach what we teach in schools. (See previous posts on curriculum, Piaget and Schank.) Today I came across an interview in which Howard Gardner of multiple intelligences (MI) fame discusses the need for curriculum change. He talks ...
