Bibliocycle

Recently I made an inventory of my web and print publication responsibilities. I have two Blogs, this one, which is for my “professional” posts, and The Bicycle Reader, which I set up to chronicle my adventures on my sabbatical last year, particularly my cross-country bike trip. I also have two Facebook accounts, one which is [...]

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It is impossible not to have an opinion about YouTube.  Based on an unscientific survey of my colleagues, many intelligent, thoughtful educators have little regard for the enormously popular video-sharing site.  But if you haven’t looked at YouTube lately, you might want to revise your judgement.  Many top colleges and universities–including UCLA, Stanford, Dartmouth and [...]

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Twitter (a free social messaging service “for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” has finally gained “academic respectability.”  According to a recent article in the British online journal the Telegraph,  “The social networking tool, which has 1.8 million [...]

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Recently I traveled to Holy Cross  in Worcester to attend a NERCOMP program on academic uses of the Word Press publishing platform.   This open-source tool has exciting applications for the academic community in blogging, web content management, manuscript peer review, improvements in library catalogs, and course instructional support.  And because it is open source, those [...]

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