Andrew Cullison

I’m seeing a lot of conferences now that result in edited volumes. This might be an easy way to start a high quality open access publication. Suppose we set up some kind of society (e.g. The Society for Open Access Philosophy) to throw a yearly summer philosophy conference. The process for getting into the conference [...]

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There’s been a lot of discussion around the philosophy blogs since Leiter brought everyone’s attention to this illuminating read by Lou Marinoff. I finally got around to reading the Marinoff piece today today. One issue that some have seized on is that Marinoff confesses to taking academic pedigree into account.

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I was checking out Ethics Etc today, and I notice a poll they have up. Here’s the question. In deciding whether to recommend acceptance or rejection of a paper for a journal, should one base one’s decision in part on the reputation, editorial policies, etc. of the journal? As of today 187 people have voted. [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: android, educational technology, google phone, teaching, the academy by Andrew Cullison
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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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This story showed up on Tech Crunch about a week ago. I’m just now getting around to reading it. It’s about two Belgian college students who were caught cheating on exams. It looks like there was already some evidence against them, but it was their Facebook conversations (presumably public wall postings) that finally convinced the [...]

Filed under: ethics, teaching, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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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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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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This site now averages enough monthly traffic that it was eligible to become part of a CPM banner ad network. As you can see, I’ve now rolled out some ads. The nice thing about a CPM banner networks is that you get paid per page impression (CPM) rather than per click. Since I’m getting paid [...]

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I’ve started a group here on campus to help promote and support the use of open source software on campus. Right now our site is called Open SUNY. When I tell people on campus that we should consider making the switch to open source software, I often here something like - “Yeah, but who’s going [...]

Filed under: educational technology, open source, the academy by Andrew Cullison
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