Monthly Archives: January 2011

Digital textbooks remain a nascent business and a tough market to enter. At an average cost of $100, textbooks command the highest cover prices in publishing, outside of only some art and coffee table books. Demand is artificially inelastic as … Continue reading →

The major internet carriers are not your friends and not attemping to provide broader access. This piece from the Washington Post describes apathy of carriers in taking advantage of stimulus money to improve access. Their reasons are varied. All three … Continue reading →

This live from Grand Forks. Hail storm in progress.  

We have been exploring the potential of gps-enabled digital cameras and such cameras would seem to be useful in educational projects. I just noticed a review for another camera of this type. I have not had a hands-on with the … Continue reading →

Exceptions for instructors offers a tool intended to guide educators in making fair use decisions. Every time I encounter such a tool or a source of information for educators I try to read carefully to determine whether fair use covers … Continue reading →

Note to self (and anyone else who keeps resources in the cloud) – there is a very useful LifeHacker post offering techniques to back up different collections you have stored in the cloud. I am presently downloading my Flickr collection … Continue reading →