RhetoricVille

I have been playing around lately with Joomla, the open source content-management system.  Partly I just like to learn new technologies — new to me, I mean.  Partly, I am thinking of using Joomla for the web site I manage for my union.   I am fond of open source software.  Not just because it’s free, […]

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I was doing some of that grading the modern way this afternoon when the server at my school went down. So I have the work graded, but can’t return it online until the server comes back up. This is not a big deal for me; I did not promise to have all the work […]

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I am doing all of my grading via computer these days. When I am in the office and see boxes around for dropping off papers, I think, “How 20th Century.” There are numerous advantages to grading on the computer and returning the work through an online classroom program such as Blackboard.
First, I get to […]

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Well, almost. I still have papers to grade. Only none of them are actually on paper. I have all my students submit their work electronically now, using the Blackboard online program.  A nice thing about it is that you, the teacher, can see exactly when each assignment was submitted, and can grade and […]

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“At this week’s Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications conference, AT&T COO Randall Stephenson told his listeners that increased bandwidth was no longer of great importance to consumers. . . .” AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections “irrelevant”
The article goes on to quote Stephenson as saying that there is no discernible difference Comcast’s 6 Mbps and DSL’s 1.5 […]

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