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U of MN Paying Professors $500 to Review Open Textbooks
The University of Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and it’s just been revealed that the University will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books, according to this article on Inside HigherEd. Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with all of the money [...]
Continue reading...MN Attorney General on Cramming Scamming
3. February 2012
Here is a followup to the post, “Mobile Text Message “Cramming” Scam” since I’ve received a response, embedded below, from an assistant with the State of Minnesota Attorney General’s office. The AG’s letter below had four key responses: Yes, I was a “victim” of cramming and it is an old scam, with players in the game [...]
Continue reading...Student Led Technology Conference
13. January 2012
Inver Grove Heights Community Schools has an upcoming event that seems so delightful that I had to bring it to you. It’s likely you know of someone who would really enjoy being enlightened about technology by a bunch of students, or perhaps you’d like to attend too and see how these kids have learned to [...]
Continue reading...3M Company supports SOPA
23. December 2011
More than 400 organizations have publicly expressed support of the contentious Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or the passage of other similar anti-piracy legislation, and we were stunned to see that Minnesota-based 3M Company made the list of those organizations IN FAVOR OF the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) (click that link to get a quick overview of what SOPA is [...]
Continue reading...Walker Art Center’s Awesome New Website
8. December 2011
Earlier this week I had a friend send me a Twitter DM saying, “Man…you MUST check out the new Walker Art Center website.” So I headed over there that evening and spent over an hour reading, poking around and seeing what they’d delivered. To say I was impressed is an understatement: the design is fresh, [...]
Continue reading...Heard About The Mass Spying Industry Yet?
3. December 2011
Wikileak’s founder, Julian Assange, made headlines around the world this past week with his presentation on the release of tens of thousands hundreds of documents (with more to be released) outlining that “Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries.” So that you are able [...]
Continue reading...Stop the Internet Blacklist
16. November 2011
I normally don’t harvest content en masse from a website, but I honestly didn’t think the SOPA/Protect IP bills would actually make it to the floors in Congress. It has and the hearings are going on right now but, according to Tim O’Reilly (the tech publisher) on Google+ a moment ago, “This is really important. [...]
Continue reading...“Thank You” for the Books for Thai School
25. October 2011
Back in September I wrote a post called, “English Books for Thai School – Can You Help?” and was so pleased people jumped in to help. We collected well over 250 books for the school and delivered them when the students and teachers arrived at the Mall of America at the outset of their time [...]
Continue reading...Something Amazing Happened at #EduTechMN Yesterday – Steve Jobs Was in the Room
6. October 2011
[This post was originally published earlier today on Tech~Surf~Blog.] I felt it. I didn’t know it then, but it may have been at the precise moment Steve was passing. I was sitting in a room of about 100 people, mid-afternoon, listening to a panel of educators at the EduTech MN conference at the University of [...]
Continue reading...Predicting Human Behavior through Games
6. September 2011
Every week, people from around the world spend more than 3 billion hours playing video games. Professor Jaideep Srivastava of the University of Minnesota and Professor Dmitri Williams at the University of Southern California find this number too large to ignore. Their software company Ninja Metrics relies on social analytics to make sense of human [...]
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