Andrew Cullison

I  got a Google Wave invite last week. Now that I’ve played around with it for a bit, I’m sold. This thing is awesome. In this post, I’ll say a bit about what google wave is, and then I’ll briefly note a host of great things that philosophers (and other academics) will be able to [...]

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A lot of philosophers might want server space, but don’t want to shell out the money. I’m talking about real server space where you can do anything you want without the sorts of restrictions and bandwidth limitations that universities might place on the free stuff they give you. There’s a lot of cool things you [...]

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This is exciting. An Android App for Drop.io is in the works! Academics with Android phones should be very excited about this. I use Drop.io to have students submit papers. I use Drop.io to help me share files with students, but still be within Fair Use Guidelines. Drop.io is, all around, an incredibly useful tool [...]

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Blog platforms are so good and versatile that educators have all of the resources we need to run a course management website without the need for proprietary software. Blogs do just about everything a course management software system can do and more. There are also several other benefits to do something like this with a [...]

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Google Forms are turning out to be an awesome for academics. I use it for the Philosophy Journal Surveys. Last week, I showed how you can use Google forms to have your students create a gradebook spreadsheet for you. This got me thinking about other cool ways to use Google Forms. In this post, I [...]

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I have a course blog. Students are required to post 2 substantive analysis posts on the reading for the semester. I stagger these deadlines so that every week there are a few analysis posts each week. These posts should be about 250-500 words in length. I also have a weekly 200 requirement. All students must [...]

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If you’re using a spreadsheet application to record and calculate grades, then each year you have to get your list of students into the spreadsheet. You either do this manually, or you copy and paste the names from some list of your students online. But sometimes you might want a little more information next to [...]

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If you haven’t seen it yet, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new look. It’s been up for a few weeks now (I think), but I haven’t had a chance to check it out until today. It looks great. It’s beautifully laid out, but it’s still nice and clean. Navigation through the site is [...]

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This is awesome. You know how Google Books has all of these digitized books online? It looks like they’re finally starting to partner with tech companies and book retailers. Sony is going to make public domain books available (for free) on their eReaders, and Barnes and Noble is going to let people download the books [...]

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Earlier, I posted about Evernote. I focused particularly on the Android smartphone application that was recently released for beta testing. In that post, I did a little blackboard test. I wanted to test the feasibility of using Evernote to (a) take snapshots of a blackboard, and (b) have those snapshots show up accurately in key [...]

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