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Wired for Thought
Last month, Jeff Stibel (A'95) published the book "Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet." Recently, he blogged for Harvard Business about the relationship between our brains and the Internet: ...The Internet is beginning...
The Value of Resilience and the Belief in Dreams
Freshman Charmaine Poh was inspired by a talk freelance Middle East correspondent Alice Fordham gave to the EXPOSURE group last week where she discussed the need for resilience in the field of journalism. I sometimes wonder if it’s so silly...
Blog Action Day Against Climate Change
Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event uniting the world's bloggers around the issue of climate change with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Sustainability and environmental awareness are incredibly important issues here at...
Gluten Freeways
Navigating dining options can be tough for people with celiac disease or other conditions that mandate a gluten-free lifestyle. On the Gluten Freeways blog, the author -- identifying as a Tufts grad, though we're unable to confirm an identity --...
Vote for Emergent!
The founders of the renewable energy consulting firm Emergent Energy -- three of whom are Tufts students -- have been named among the top 25 young entrepreneurs in the U.S. by Business Week. Readers can vote for the business they...
Phenomenal Handclap Blogger
Want to know more about the music scene in Boston? Sophomore Sara Harari recently signed on as a contributor to the music blog Pulp and Circumstance. Check out her recent review of a show by the Phenomenal Handclap Band at...
Scoping Out TuftScope
The breadth of student publications at Tufts, many of which have been around for decades, is quite impressive. As the web becomes an increasingly dominant publishing medium, it's interesting to watch these publications adopt and incorporate new media. TuftScope, an...
Fascinated by Silk
MAKE magazine interviewed School of Engineering Associate Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto as part of their Fascination series of interviews with notable scientists and technologists. Omenetto discusses his innovative work with silk proteins to create bio-compaible sensors. You can watch the video...
See SEANET Run
One of the coolest initiatives based at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine -- and there are a lot of them -- is the Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET), a volunteer-driven, privately-funded project that assesses seabird mortality along the eastern...
Nutrition Takes to the Airwaves
The Nutrition Internet Radio Program presents the second episode of "Nutrition Talk," an Internet radio program written and produced by students at the Friedman School. This episode focuses on the economic downturn and its impact on food prices and consumer...
A Running Start
The men's cross country team, along with the rest of Jumbo athletics, is off and running this fall. If you're looking for a unique perspective into the team, check out the blog maintained by coach Ethan Barron. Recently, the coach...
Student Blogs
We love to find out which student groups are blogging. Here are a couple we just discovered: Public Health at Tufts, maintained by undergraduates in the group of the same name Slow Food Tufts, maintained by students at the Friedman...
Truly Delicious
Lesley Sykes, a graduate student in agriculture, food and environment at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, has a food blog called "Keeping Food True." In her bio, she writes: I hope to eventually find a career that...
It Came From the Archives
If you're not reading the blog of Tufts' Digital Collections and Archives, you should. They not only give you a peek beneath the hood of what goes into chronicling and capturing the history of a university, but they also share...
Entries from Teaching with Technology @ Tufts tagged with 'blog'
Friday's Pick: Tufts' Spark Recognized as Campus Technology Innovator
This has been an exciting week for Tufts University Information Technology (UIT) as the UIT Spark suite of communication and collaboration tools was recognized as the winner of the 2007 Campus Technology Innovator - Social/Community Networking category. Tufts was one...
Friday's Pick: The Anthropology of Web 2.0
The 2007 UIT Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning with Technology, will focus on such Web 2.0 tools as wikis, blogs, and podcasting. In researching resources to provide faculty on how their peers are using these tools, I read about...
Friday's Pick: Gallaudet students and the power of technology
Like many of you, I had followed the news about the controversial appointment and firing of Gallaudet University's future president. What I didn't realize until I read Brock Read's Chronicle of Higher Education article, At Gallaudet U., Technology and Influential Blogs Helped Galvanize Protests http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/11/2006110102n.htm was the enormous influence of technologies on that decision.
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