Andrew Cullison

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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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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I coach an ethics bowl team. The Northeast Regional Cases are up, but people have been having problems with the site. I’m posting a link to the cases this year so that other people in the Northeast have another website to grab a copy of the cases. I also want a place for my own [...]

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Sarah called me yesterday and said, “There’s some philosopher on the Today Show, and Meredith is asking him about whether or not philosophy is relevant to people today. They’re also talking about all those trolley cases that you love to talk about.” I couldn’t find the video yesterday. But I found it today. Here it [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: educational technology, open source, teaching, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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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 [...]

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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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