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Monthly Archives November 2011

Explain Everything

Here is an iPad app recommendation. Keeping college students in town the day before a holiday break is tough. It is a tough call on holding class – many will skip and then you have to decide what to do with the half that stay. The class in question for me was Educational Psychology and [...]

Posted 25 November 2011 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Here are a couple of ways in which you can support content creation and infrastructure development

I am kind of like Public Radio – every so often I lay this guilt trip on people reminding them that the content they appreciate costs someone some money. The notion of free content is mostly an illusion – you pay, you tolerate ads, you tolerate a provider’s self promotion, someone else pays, or you [...]

Posted 12 November 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The relative value of social contributions

I tell my class that while they may not be personally interested in the research process they should appreciate that researchers perform a valuable service. Whatever the outcome of their studies,  researchers take the vague terms that we all use and throw around and translate (operationalize) these terms in a form that can be measured. [...]

Posted 08 November 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: