May 19th, 2008
Blog Roundup 5/19/08: This is Your Brain on the Web
It’s Monday morning, boys and girls! You know what that means.
Direct injection of caffeine into the veins. I mean, the Blog Roundup!
For starters, elearnspace pointed me to a handy list of Web research tips and tricks at Fortnightly Mailing. For students who aren’t intimately familiar with the vagaries of Google (and there are more out there than you think), this makes a good primer.
The ever-reliable Higher Ed Watch gives us a ray of hope shining through the black cloud of doom that is student lending. It involves “bonds” and “municipal offerings,” so I’m not quite sure what happened exactly, but if they say it’s good, I’ll believe it.
Inside Higher Ed reports that some community colleges are eliminating Friday classes in order to help their students and faculty save on gas. Gosh, they could just, I dunno, offer those classes online.
And finally today, Mission to Learn offers an interesting article on some common learning myths (left vs. right brain, old brains can’t learn, etc.) and just how much truth there is to them. Can the old dog living in your skull learn some new tricks after all?
