The answer is simple: educational technology administrators. More specifically, Penn State’s ETS administrators. A little less than two weeks ago, Blackboard announced that it would be acquiring ANGEL. The acquisition raised ruckus among the prolific educational technology community. Fool me once, shame on you… Context is important here. Blackboard was an early leader in the […]
Maybe she’ll do a hands on tutorial…
Can’t make this stuff up. The Centre Daily Times reported yesterday that Scott Ruzal, a 20-year old student from New Jersey, was sentenced to at least 35 days in jail after a policeman told the judge who had presided over the case that Ruzal had been tweeting nasty things about cops while he was in […]
Last night, Bruce Springsteen performed at the Bryce Jordan Center. The Centre Daily Times reported that he would play songs by request, confusing his E Street Band. And the Boss is sometimes having fun at others’ expense, such as when he closed the 3 ½ hour performance with a medley of tunes including “Good Golly […]
Alison Go, the blogger behind U.S. News & World Report’s Paper Trail Blog, broke our hearts a little this evening. She had this to say, It’s been a fun two years, but it’s now time for me to leave Paper Trail and U.S. News. I’ll honestly miss reading and writing about the dumb (and impressive) […]
A little over a week ago, Irving’s became the first business (that we know of) in State College to offer a special deal to its Twitter followers. We thought the special was interesting– and delicious– so we visited Irving’s a few days ago to talk to owner Marya Schoenholtz about the promotion. Irving’s isn’t the […]