Andrew Cullison

Two things happened yesterday. I had my wisdom teeth pulled, and FedEx brought me my new smartphone - the Motorola Droid. So on balance, yesterday was awesome. That’s how great this thing is. Don’t get me wrong,

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I spoke with an IT person at one of the schools from the list of SUNY schools that appeared to have made the switch to Google Apps. Here’s an interesting update. The switch was put on hold and will take effect soon, because…and this is the exciting part…in the next few weeks there will be [...]

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Google Apps offers a free Education Edition to schools. Schools can provide all of their faculty, staff, and students with a gmail account that uses the school’s domain! It gets better, Google Apps comes with more than free, reliable, searchable email (with 7GB of storage space!). Your college Google account comes with free IM, free [...]

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I’m using Wordpress now as my course management platform. I outline and explain the reasons why this is awesome here. In this post, I want to highlight some plugins that run the gamut from must have to cool-to-have. I’ll let you decide which is which.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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