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December 14, 2007

Easy Access Teaching

Richard Baraniuk is a Rice University professor who has a truly unique vision: create a free, global online education system that puts the power of collaboration and creation in the hands of teachers. To do this, he created Connexions, a Web site that allows teachers to “create, rip, mix and burn” coursework—without the fear of copyright infringement.
Connexions system [...]

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December 2, 2007

Spotlight: Simply Hitchcock

Ahh, Hitchcock! He of the great suspense and thriller films, Alfred Hitchcock was born in London in 1899. Hitchcock was a great storyteller in his youth, and aspects of his mother were borrowed for the movie Psycho. Surprising as it may seem, Alfred Hitchcock only won one Academy Award for his films; his film, Rebecca [...]

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