This past weekend the New York Times published an article called “In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History” by Tamar Lewin.  The article profiles the increasing adoption of digital textbooks by school districts as a way of cutting costs and as a way of updating pedagogical methods in response to technological and social advances.  Lewin [...]

Background story in a nutshell Washington Post writer Ian Shapira writes an article about business coach/’generational consultant’ Anne Loehr: Speaking to Generation Nexus: Guru Explains Gens X, Y, Boomer To One Another Gawker blogger Hamilton Nolan picks up the story: ‘Generational Consultant’ Holds America’s Fakest Job Shapira complains that Gawker stole his story: The Death [...]

I’ve made a few tweaks to LEESEAN.net to make the design more user-friendly. The most obvious change is the removal of the big photos that showed up in the header.  After careful consideration, I decided that while I like them, they were taking up too much space in the browser window, especially on small laptop [...]

My ITP classmate, Catherine White, has set up a community on Ning to discuss her ongoing project.  In her own words: My research is primarily focused on how we work together in groups, particularly how to make collaboration more fruitful, and efficient (and less painful – because it sometimes is). Specifically, I am looking at [...]

HEPNOVA’s greatest-hits collection, “Best Shots,” is now available on Grooveshark (search for “Hepnova”) and on Bandcamp.  Of course, our entire collection of music can still be found at Hepnova.com.