Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Strategies to avoid presentation overload

From The Chronicle of Higher Education - ProfHacker: Challenging the Presentation Paradigm with the 1/1/5 Rule

Is the 1/1/5 rule for you?

Books are dead and other myths of the 'information age'

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: 5 Myths About the 'Information Age'
"Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It's no one's fault but everyone's problem, because in trying to get our bearings in cyberspace, we often get things wrong..."

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

New paper from the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute

Can Canada Have a Grand Strategy?
By J.L. Granatstein
""...leaders of every smaller nation know from hard experience that at base their interests may be sacrificed or overridden by superpowers following their own Grand Strategy or, sometimes, selfishly or in a fit of absence of mind advancing their own national interests."


We have J.L. Granatstein's new book in the Library.

Canada's army : waging war and keeping the peace (call #: UA600 .G6597 2011)

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The latest issue of EDUCAUSE Review is all "mobile"

EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, issue 2 (March/April 2011)
Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives
Contents include:
  • Mobile literacy
  • E-Reading: The Transition in Higher Education
  • Mobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology