Nature reports today that 1200 students at the University of Texas, Austin are part of an experiment in which they are using Amazon’s Kindle 2 instead of print textbooks. At $359 a pop, one can only hope that the textbooks themselves can be downloaded at a reasonable cost. The new Read more…
I’m working with a group of students, Ben Ainley, Karen Freberg, Rebecca Adams, and Cristina Enrique, on some interesting questions about loneliness and social networking. The students have a poster presentation accepted at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, May 22-25, and we’re all very excited about Read more…
I’m very happy to report that our family blog issues are at least temporarily resolved. Thanks to the good folks at WordPress and our ISP, we are now all up and running. I’m really pleased that the most recent version of WordPress has an automatic update feature, so that you Read more…
Well, not much progress to report since Friday. My blog is okay, Karen’s is half okay (it’s visible, but she can’t update), and Roger’s can’t be seen or modified. Roger did heroic work putting my sidebar back in shape after we upgraded our blog software. This was no small feat. Read more…
At the urging of my daughter Karen, a grad student in Public Relations, I have been experimenting a bit with using social media, namely Facebook and Twitter, as a way of interacting with students. I was also encouraged by a study by Joseph Mazer and his colleagues that suggested that Read more…