One of my co-workers says about tracking, “One of the big selling points to [Blackboard] Vista is the wealth of tracking data for auditing, grade challenges, and catching cheaters.” Certainly, Reports and Tracking in Blackboard’s Vista 3 is one of the more favorite tools. So making sure the data gets there is critically important. The…
Yesterday, CNN’s Erica Hill was following a story about 2 pit bulls who got loose and killed a woman in while she slept. My first complaint is citing statistics without saying from where they originated. Only because the of rebuttal guest pointing out the study was based on media reporting incidents rather than police reporting…
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My next personal computer probably will be a Mac. However, I’m not sure whether I should be amused, terrified, or ambivalent about this Mac worm author receives death threats story. The beef over news of a worm targeting Macs, and the identity of the researcher who claimed to have created the malware, took an even…
Places where works of SesshÅ« TÅyÅ are kept: The Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass. The National Museum of Tokyo I wish I’d known about his work being at MFA Boston which I was near last week. I’d heard his work was at the Freer Gallery, but I got…