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13 Aug 09

The Trouble With Twitter - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  • laughable name that itself suggests foolishness
  • I offer no defense of Twitter, but Twitter is only a sign of the 30-second attention span crafted by broadcast television in the past 30 years. If viewers can't 'get it' in 30 seconds, most just tune out. It's sad, but Walter Cronkite could probably not get a job today. And I thoroughly enjoy a well-researched investigative piece. Give me 10,000 well-written words any day.

    Unfortunately, the majority of 'news' reporting that people consume today is little more than a nationally-televised Tweet. Flip to (insert news channel acronym here) and it's all infotainment. Far too many (biased) talking heads ensuring that 'all sides' of a news item are covered. I'm not excluding any of them: they all pander to popular culture to maintain ratings. Not report the news.

    And print? It's dead. Let it go. The financial and environmental costs to produce a print newspaper with a one-day lifespan are far too great: from harvesting/recycling to delivery. Nasty and unprofitable and by the time it's delivered it's out of date. If a news reporter wants to keep his or her job she should adjust to the new content-delivery format and start tweeting. Or start on that novel...

    We can bemoan it all we want, but we have exactly the news consumer we produced.
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04 Jun 09

Blackboard vs. Moodle

    • Student Satisfaction

      Would like another (Blackboard/Moodle) course


      Blackboard:


      • 46.2% strongly or somewhat agree
      • 30.8% neutral
      • 23.1% somewhat or strongly disagree
      • 57.2% strongly or somewhat agree
      • 21.4% neutral
      • 21.4% somewhat or strongly disagree



      Student Satisfaction

      Which do you prefer, Moodle or Blackboard?


      No preference – 42.9%

      Moodle - 35.7%

      Blackboard - 21.4%

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  • What are open technologies?






    Open technologies is an umbrella term that includes open source software, open standards, and open hardware.

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