–strange disconnect – aren’t education and businesses subject to those same competing forces?
And like any business, universities want to remain competitive on the salaries they pay their faculty. That gives rise to the comparative faculty salary survey. Since no university wants its faculty paid in the bottom half of their comparator group, the effect of every survey is to raise average salaries. It’s the Lake Wobegon effect: No one can be below average.
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The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh) : MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art : Art Project, powered by Google
Pretty nice interface for examining some famous paintings via Google. Ought to make some art teachers very happy.
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code | Magazine
“People often assume that I must be some extremely moral person because I didn’t take advantage of the lottery,” he says. “I can assure you that that’s not the case. I’d simply done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn’t worth my time.”
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www.rotman.utoronto.ca/rogermartin/the art of integrative thinking.pdf
Modern leadership needs integrative thinking. Integrative thinkers
embrace complexity, tolerate uncertainty, and manage tension in searching for
creative solutions to problems.
The Hip-Hop Word Count: A Searchable Rap Almanac by Tahir Hemphill — Kickstarter
The Hip-Hop Word Count (HHWC) is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 Hip-Hop songs from 1979 to present day. The database is the heart of an online analysis tool that generates textual and quantified reports on searched phrases, syntax, memes and socio-political ideas.
iZotope Vinyl – Authentic Lo-Fi Vinyl Simulation for Pro Tools, VST, MAS, Audio Unit, and DirectX audio applications
About « The Civil War Augmented Reality Project
The Civil War Augmented Reality Project was conceived by several public educators with technology experience and a desire to offer more interactivity to students and the general public visiting historic sites. The objective of the project is to develop and implement augmented reality services related to the American Civil War in Pennsylvania, and to modify soon to be released tablet personal computers to allow the general public a chance to experience the applications.
Canvas LMS by Instructure. Learning management system made simple.
UMW has this.
Making sense of the internet and Egypt – CNN.com
U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told Al-Jazeera that internet access is a modern human right:
“We want to make sure that Egypt is not interfering with the use of social media. That’s a fundamental right as clear as walking into a town square. We’re making these points clear to Egypt, publicly and privately.”