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I’ve been asked to present at a campus Earth Week event on open source software, the environment, and social justice. As with the “9 Cool Web Apps Post“, I’ll be using this post as a kind of handout that people at the talk can go back to. I hope off-campus readers will get something out [...]
Filed under: educational technology, ethics, open source, teaching, the academy, ubuntu by Andrew Cullison
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The recent version of Open Office makes it very easy for philosophers to insert logical notation into their papers. It’s done through by adding special commands into the AutoCorrect Feature. This post will show you how to do that. Suppose you want the existential quantifier to automatically replace ‘/e’ - Here’s what you do.
Filed under: educational technology, open source, research tools, teaching, the academy by Andrew Cullison
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When I started teaching and having service duties, I started going to those major-information-day-events. I’ve compiled materials over the past few years that I use at those fairs, and I thought it would be good to start sharing those with the philosophical community. I also occasionally have students who come to me with a dilemma. [...]
Filed under: teaching, why study philosophy by Andrew Cullison
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I opened a spreadsheet in google docs today and discovered that I can now edit my google doc spreadsheets from the google phone! Google was heavily criticized for not hitting the ground with this kind of functionality. I’m glad to see they’re so quick to work on this. This really opens up the phone for [...]
Filed under: android, educational technology, google phone, open source, research tools, sympoze, teaching by Andrew Cullison
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Free services like Qipit and Evernote are awesome for academia, and the Google Phone really unlocks their power. It’s like having a high quality Xerox machine in your pocket. How These Services Work I’ll focus on Qipit. First, set up an account with Qipit and give them your email address. Next, snap a picture of [...]
Filed under: android, educational technology, google phone, research tools, teaching, the academy by Andrew Cullison
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I’m sympathetic to Clayton Littlejohn’s laptop ban discussed here and inspired by Kevin Timpe. Last semester, I noticed a significant increase in the number of students bringing laptops to class. I know these hurt performance (see Clayton’s post for the empirical data). I toyed with the notion of banning laptops, but I know there are [...]
Filed under: educational technology, teaching by Andrew Cullison
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There have been a litany of complaints about the organization of American Philosophical Association (APA) since the close of the Eastern APA. I thought I’d gather them here. Philosophers Anonymous has several complaints here and here Leiter posted a complaint by David Velleman here. That thread is still generating interesting discussion. The Philosophy Smoker has [...]
Filed under: the academy by Andrew Cullison
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[UPDATE: An alternative method explained at bottom of post.] A lot of us are furiously crunching numbers into Spreadsheets, but then we’ll have to convert those final grade percentages to letter grades. Here are some formulas you can use to automatically generate a Final Letter Grade from your students Final Grade Percentage. Even if you [...]
Filed under: teaching by Andrew Cullison
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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 [...]
Filed under: open source, research tools, teaching, ubuntu by Andrew Cullison
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