a three-dimensional role-playing game to teach students about the intricacies of being a journalist: coming up with a story angle, identifying sources, preparing questions, synthesizing information, and writing an article.
Macs just aren’t as safe as they used to be. Users of Macintosh computers, including many in higher education, have touted their machines’ superiority over Windows and PC’s when it comes to resisting hack attacks and viruses. But according to Sophos, a computer-security firm that just issued a report on security problems, Macs are losing their safety edge.
Can Facebook, known as a place for socializing, become part of the research process as well?
Through the use of software and programs that make it easy to produce and distribute podcasts, colleges and universities increasingly are making course lectures available for downloading online.
A technology-law scholar in Canada, has been vigorously campaigning against a proposed copyright reform bill via YouTube and Facebook.
Dan Cohen, director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, wants scholars to stop keeping their research materials to themselves. Just about every academic has notes, photographs, digital scans of research documents, and plenty of other data on their hard drives, he says, but they rarely share anything beyond what makes it into their final books or journal articles. Wh
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Usefully steps to help educators create podcasts with content that makes listeners want to return for more.