If you can break down what you’re looking for in a good paper into a set of categories and assign a numerical value to each category, then you should definitely consider using Google Forms to help you grade. I just developed a quick and easy way to do this. Here’s what I do. My students… Continue Reading
The Monads are back. I suspect a lot of my readers are familiar with the Monads. What you may not realize is that they are back. Kris McDaniel, an original member of the Monads, has revived the group with Ben Bradley and Carrie Jenkins. They are calling themselves “The 21st Century Monads”, and they already… Continue Reading
UPDATE: 12/28/09 It only took the people over at NookDevs a week to jailbreak the Nook. There is a now a softmod that gets you a web browser. This is what I love about having an eReader that runs the Android open source OS – the odds of us getting the eReader to do what… Continue Reading
I’ve been waiting for the perfect eReader to sweep me off my feet with its native PDF capability and huge file capacity. I thought it would be the Nook, but it looks like the annotation function is missing some desirable features. There’s also salient possibility that PDFs of journal articles will be too small to… Continue Reading
Someone started an Academic Philosophy sub-group on Reddit. I love the mission statement. This reddit is intended for practicing philosophers – undergraduate students, graduate students, professors or researchers. People who like /r/philosophy but find the insipid self posts and cartoons tiresome. Persons with academic training outside of philosophy are welcome. Links to articles of merit… Continue Reading
I mentioned how excited I was for the Nook here. A large part of the enthusiasm was that, as an academic philosopher, I really want an eReader that has native PDF support. I want to build a huge, awesome eLibrary of philosophy journal articles. I’m still excited about the Nook, but this enthusiasm has been… Continue Reading
I broke my sidebar. Not sure how. This seems like the perfect time to explore for a new wordpress theme. So, pardon me while I play around with themes for a while. All of the content will still be here. Most importantly, the journal surveys will still be up and running. So don’t be freaked… Continue Reading
A couple days ago, I posted about my reasons why I wanted a Nook and why I think philosophers should be interested in it. However, something has come to my attention that makes this is device slightly less attractive. Based on the discussion forum here, it looks like annotation is only available on items that… Continue Reading
So, just yesterday the tech community started freaking out (in a good way) about Barnes and Noble’s new eReader – the nook. There’s a lot to be excited about. It has the e-ink technology. The basic idea behind e-ink is that it interacts with yours eyes like reading text off of a page. I’ve seen… Continue Reading