Blog Usage Statistics

Number of views

I am quite surprised to see that my Isocrates and Education post has achieved 269 views to date (note added Jan. 31:  now it’s up to 350 views) , more than twice the amount of my Rhetorical Studies in Canada post.  It looks like 1/4 of those viewers may have taken a look at my other Isocrates post.

Unsurprisingly, the U of C Educational Cultures post is very active since I posted it on December 07.  I provided a link on our faculty’s email listserv, and posted a link on the Fine Arts discussion board.  Our university is presently discussing the restructuring of our “Arts” faculties and will continue to do so in the coming months.

 

Useful Technologies for Academics

A class in a medieval university. 13th century. from Wikipedia Commons

In this post, I summarize the uses of some technological tools for your professional work (teaching, research, service, staff members’ work).   Some of them are very popular already, and some less well known.  Some of these I just started using in the past year or even the past few weeks.

Contents:

OpenOffice – an alternative to upgrading your MSWord //  Box.net online file storage // Ucalgaryblogs and Edublogs // PDF XChange Viewer – to annotate PDFs with notes, underlines, marginal comments // using Gmail as backup/archive of another email account // Google Calendar — to view and share many calendars at once, synchronizes with Outlook calendar // Doodle for scheduling meetings with many people // iGoogle – your customized web homepage // Wikimedia and Flickr – how to search for good images with copyright permission to be used in your power points, web pages, and student assignments.