Andrew Cullison

UPDATE: I made the switch. It’s awesome. I’m seriously entertaining the idea of having students submit papers to me by sharing a Google Document rather than my current model. I have 10 reasons why I think this is a good idea. But first let me describe the two models. My Current Model I grade papers [...]

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UPDATE: Listen to Episode One I track a bunch of philosophy journals in Google Reader. I was reading through them one day and putting stars next to the papers that looked interesting, but then I had to do something (I think it was cook dinner) and I had to stop reading. During these times, I’ve [...]

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I gave a presentation to faculty and staff today called about Google services. I focused on 5 cool things academics can do with Google Forms. Below is the slide presentation I used for the talk. I’ll be adding You Tube video in the little boxes soon to turn the presentation slides into a narrated presentation. [...]

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There’s a lot of surveying going on in philosophy, and it’s not the X-Phi guys. All of these surveys are designed to generate interesting data about the profession. Survey on Publishing in Philosophy Sally Haslinger is gathering data about publishing in philosophy. Word on the street is that she’ll report about the results at the [...]

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I spoke with an IT person at one of the schools from the list of SUNY schools that appeared to have made the switch to Google Apps. Here’s an interesting update. The switch was put on hold and will take effect soon, because…and this is the exciting part…in the next few weeks there will be [...]

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I’m using Wordpress now as my course management platform. I outline and explain the reasons why this is awesome here. In this post, I want to highlight some plugins that run the gamut from must have to cool-to-have. I’ll let you decide which is which.

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If you can break down what you’re looking for in a good paper into a set of categories and assign a numerical value to each category, then you should definitely consider using Google Forms to help you grade. I just developed a quick and easy way to do this. Here’s what I do. My students [...]

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I’ve been waiting for the perfect eReader to sweep me off my feet with its native PDF capability and huge file capacity. I thought it would be the Nook, but it looks like the annotation function is missing some desirable features. There’s also salient possibility that PDFs of journal articles will be too small to [...]

Filed under: educational technology, nook, research tools, teaching, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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A couple days ago, I posted about my reasons why I wanted a Nook and why I think philosophers should be interested in it. However, something has come to my attention that makes this is device slightly less attractive. Based on the discussion forum here, it looks like annotation is only available on items that [...]

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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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