Category Archives: teaching

OpenOffice 3.0 Notes Feature - Printing Notes

October 24, 2008 – 10:53 am

Last week I wrote about the Open Office 3.0 note feature. If you have students submit papers electronically - OpenOffice 3.0 is a big improvement - because you can type notes and comments that appear in colored bubbles in the margins.
The problem is that in OpenOffice 3.0 these comment bubbles appear outside the printable margin. [...]

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What Plagiarism is OK?

October 21, 2008 – 11:18 pm

I had three hits today on my website from somebody googling “What Plargiarism is OK?” - Here is your answer…none.

By Andrew Cullison | Also posted in ethics, the academy | Comments (5)

Endnote Suing Virginia Over Zotero

September 28, 2008 – 7:39 pm

Stop using Endnote.
Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing Virginia over Zotero. The claim is that the makers of Zotero reverse engineered Endnote to make Zotero.
However, it doesn’t look like that’s true. It looks like Zotero allows users to use their own Endnote file and save their bibliographic information back as an Endnote file [...]

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Free the Air Waves

September 24, 2008 – 11:58 pm

The move from analog to digital TV will free up a ton of unused white space. The issue is - what do we do with all of that space?
The folks at Google are pushing to free it up.
Big telecom companies would like this white space to remain heavily regulated and controlled. If this space is [...]

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16 Things You Should Know About The Incoming Freshmen

July 14, 2008 – 12:50 pm

Every year, before I start teaching I like to think about the cultural background of the incoming freshmen class. It helps me teach and relate to them. It’s also pretty interesting to think about.
This year, I decided write some of those thoughts down. I’m assuming that the average incoming freshmen student was born in 1990.
With [...]

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