Andrew Cullison

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 [...]

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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.

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A few weeks ago, I posted some very general materials that I like to use at Major Information Day fairs. Philosophers can use those at your information fairs. There’s no reason for all of us to spend time making these kinds of flyer. Also, if you’re a student and you want some information to print [...]

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UPDATE: Finished that report I just finished that last referee report that I posted about a few days ago, so that invitation to yell at me is now off the table. However, something funny happened today. I just received another request to referee a paper. So now you may yell at me in two weeks [...]

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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. [...]

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UPDATE: [Finished the Report] I was just asked to referee a paper for another journal. You know the drill. If after two weeks (March 9), I haven’t updated this post saying that I have finished the report…you may yell at me.

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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 [...]

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