tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44106216621367150822008-05-10T14:46:22.913-04:00Boles University BlogBoles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-8889415536988131072008-05-09T08:41:00.008-04:002008-05-10T14:46:22.945-04:00Online International ASL TutoringBoles University and HardcoreASL.com are pleased to announce two new programs.
The first is our ability to now offer online and in person international American Sign Language fluency evaluations for job seekers, businesses and private individuals. Now you can get a job based on your ASL skills, or you can "opt out" of a foreign language requirement for your schooling.
Next, we now offer Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-9333956541317908902008-05-02T08:28:00.002-04:002008-05-02T08:37:06.231-04:00Censorship is the Last Domain of TyrantsThere is no greater threat to freedom than censorship that pretends to be randomized or accidental.
The internet is a wonky, unstable, place filled with wires and tubes and fragile connections.
To get rid of a book, you have to burn it in the public square. To erase a file or a blog entry, you only need to touch a mouse and click.
What sort of protections do we demand in the electronic Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-82534719573590744062008-04-25T16:36:00.006-04:002008-04-25T16:59:41.122-04:00Minority Children in Triple JeopardyHealth Affairs recently released a disturbing and disparaging report concerning the health and wellbeing of minority children in America:
Bethesda, MD -- Almost 17 percent of black children and 20.5 percent of Latino children in the United States live in "double jeopardy," meaning that they live in both poor families and poor neighborhoods, according to research released today in the March/April Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-90484103662087093782008-04-17T08:11:00.003-04:002008-04-17T08:36:45.865-04:00JK Rowling Wrongly Claims Harry PotterJK Rowling -- author of the Harry Potter books -- is trying to quash competition and publication of analysis in the form of an encyclopedia dedicated to divining meaning in the series.
Rowling feels Potter belongs to her and not the world. She is wrong.
We argue the Potter phenomenon has become more than its pages in the hand and greater than its volumes in print.
Potter is now part of the Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-87250063433028001772008-04-11T09:46:00.006-04:002008-04-19T19:39:54.353-04:00RelationShaping Bends TechnologyWe are pleased to announce David W. Boles' RelationShaping is now online!
This new blog deals with the way our human form is conditioned by technology and our new logo describes that relationship in raw text:
RelationShaping's slogan is -- "The Spear of Technology Piercing the Body In Situ ->(" -- and that means, to us, that as we evolve as a species, we are always re-structured and conformed Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-21458464036799727452008-04-04T18:45:00.003-04:002008-04-04T19:03:45.167-04:00Offline with Google DocsGoogle announced this week we can now use their "Google Gears" feature to work on Google Docs offline.
This is a big step because it means you no longer have to be connected to the internet to interact with Google. You can now be offline and still be Google and that is a momentous happening that few seem to understand.
Google, by going offline, livens up your entire life instead of just your Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-77557865112947261912008-03-28T09:55:00.006-04:002008-03-28T10:25:01.574-04:00New Jersey Sours on JuicyCampusAs a proud resident of the State of New Jersey, we are thrilled to see state action being taken against a vicious gossip website called JuicyCampus:
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey prosecutors have subpoenaed records of JuicyCampus a Web site that publishes anonymous, often malicious gossip about college students. Language on theBoles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-43714589484924287252008-03-21T09:59:00.008-04:002008-03-21T10:27:01.196-04:00Stealing Student ContentThe University of Iowa's famous Writing Program is under fire from its graduate students -- and the creative world at large -- for its new "Open Access" philosophy of publishing creative works of its students on the internet to be found and indexed by Google and other search engines.
That attack on the creative spark is not going over well in the creative community because no publisher would Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-3064756647750778662008-03-14T08:50:00.003-04:002008-03-14T09:18:25.431-04:00Creating a Semiotic Web Through Enchanted LearningThe "inventor of the Internet," Tim Berners-Lee, argues Google's days ruling the web are numbered by claiming the future is a "semantic web" functional interface:
"Using the semantic web, you can build applications that are much more powerful than anything on the regular web," Mr Berners-Lee said. "Imagine if two completely separate things — your bank statements and your calendar — spoke the Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-11899034154504223862008-03-07T08:26:00.005-05:002008-03-07T08:41:12.709-05:00Information Literacy and the Google GenerationHere's a recent report that argues "The Google Generation" -- kids born after 1993 -- have no idea of a life without the Internet, and while that gives them great access to information, that doesn't mean they are literate beyond logging onto their computers.
Information Literacy must be earned through hard work and by acute and disbelieving analyses of data that, at times, might conflict with Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-64337834185127807712008-02-29T09:51:00.008-05:002008-02-29T10:03:08.161-05:00Google Apps Adds Google SitesIf you are a Google Apps user and a loyal fan of my book -- "Google Apps Administrator Guide" -- I have some good news!
I have uploaded "Bonus Chapter 13: Google Sites" for that seminal book to the Boles Books Writing and Publishing website.
Google Sites is the latest addition to the Google Apps suite of programs.
Using Google Sites, you can now add interactive communication workflows so you Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-90309326000865798622008-02-22T10:18:00.003-05:002008-02-22T10:25:44.126-05:00Google Health in ClevelandGoogle wants to manage your health information starting in Cleveland:
The Cleveland Clinic has more than 100,000 patients and many of those are retirees who spend some of the year elsewhere such as Arizona and Florida. And when they go, their medical records don’t follow says Dr. C. Martin Harris, the clinic’s chief information officer. The Google personal health record Harris says is a solution Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-68472972105602304152008-02-15T07:47:00.003-05:002008-02-15T09:23:27.844-05:00Picture Yourself Learning American Sign LanguageOur newest book on teaching ASL -- Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1 -- is now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble!
This is our second ASL book that uses on our Hardcore ASL teaching method and Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1 even has a DVD included so you can sign and learn with us in real time video teaching!
The unique part of the book isBoles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-7360199046295394102008-02-08T10:06:00.000-05:002008-02-08T10:18:30.142-05:00Infringing on the Amazon Mark: Kindle WebsitesAmazon has a winner in the Kindle e-book and that kind of success demands imitators who want to make money off the Kindle brand by creating source websites or fan pages by using some form of a Kindle-ized URL.
Amazon is forced by these pretend fans to fight them in legal letters and in a court of law, if necessary, because to use the Kindle trademark without explicit permission from Amazon is toBoles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-27140455454286877482008-02-01T10:54:00.000-05:002008-02-04T17:35:25.365-05:00Microsoft Buys Yahoo! While Google Bleeds GreenMicrosoft made a big bid to buy Yahoo! today in order to stanch the the bloodletting The Google has been cutting into their bottom line.
Microsoft tried to nab Yahoo! in the past and the deal never got done. I have grave doubts this purchase will ever happen.
I think this move was a ploy on Microsoft's part to cast doubt upon the growing Google Evil Empire -- and the gamesmanship might have Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-64901775901710538652008-01-25T09:04:00.000-05:002008-01-25T09:20:09.439-05:00The Flattening of LearningProfessor Tara Brabazon makes a fantastic argument that students today have no way to discern truth from validity because they have no training when it comes to judging multiple truths.
On the Internet, and in scholarly searches, all returns are provided back to the searcher in a "flat mode" where every return appears as valid as the next.
Instead of challenging that fact, students merely Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-35844582417990075332008-01-18T05:44:00.000-05:002008-01-18T09:35:21.516-05:00Publication and Copyright OwnershipFew university faculty realize when they submit a paper for publication they are giving away their right to their Copyright.
Faculty members will submit research papers to the repository often unaware that they have signed away the rights to their work to a journal publisher, Ms. Davis said. “They are stunned that they have not retained the copyrights,” she said. “They’re vehemently adamant” thatBoles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-9511355482631228432008-01-11T11:15:00.000-05:002008-01-11T11:33:18.561-05:00Yale University Goes e-Book CrazyIn a delightful turn of events, Yale University decided to make large bits of its library holdings available as e-books and e-journals so students may more easily search for relevancy based on the actual text of books and journals instead of only by their abstracts or a publisher's promotional blurp.
That sort of self-sustained effort by Yale is a fine example of self-initiated institutional Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-41170187764736046512008-01-04T08:00:00.000-05:002008-01-04T08:09:16.726-05:00Columbia University Gets GoogledWe were displeased to learn Columbia University is tumbling down the Google tube:
Columbia University has partnered with Google, Inc. to digitize select public domain printed volumes in the University Libraries’ collections and make them available online using Google Book Search. The digitization project will provide teachers, students, scholars, and readers around the world with an unprecedentedBoles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-87179154481681528562007-12-28T09:21:00.000-05:002007-12-28T09:50:52.140-05:00The Equalization Effect of Digital PublishingEstablished mainstream authors like John Updike are furious with Google for scanning books into the public domain and they're angry with publishers that choose to sell electronic editions of books -- any book.
We argue authors like Updike are angry because their specialness in publication is being ravaged by the equanimity and the equality of the digital publishing, print-on-demand, business Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-76300105674136714432007-12-21T10:12:00.000-05:002007-12-21T10:47:35.914-05:00Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard BookIt is a great delight to share with you the news that David W. Boles' newest book -- Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard -- is now available for purchase!
You may buy the book from any online bookseller or you might even find the book on the shelf of your local bookstore.
Every page of Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard teaches you how to use Apple's newest Operating Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-48238011659920142082007-12-14T11:42:00.000-05:002008-01-09T11:03:05.090-05:00Open Yale Courses Opens the FloodgatesWell, it happened: Yale University now offers free online courses for anyone interested in learning online.
You can get text notes, listen to audio, or watch the lectures on streaming video:
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-36738921320422325432007-12-07T16:48:00.000-05:002007-12-07T17:01:51.272-05:00Google and Fair UseIf you buy a book, do you own that book or have you only rented the content in that book?
Under the current Copyright law, you may loan that book and share that book, but you may not copy the book and give those copies to your friends or sell those copies to your enemies.
The current Google project to digitize university libraries is a concern in that many of the works Google are scanning are Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-90476008769456503672007-11-30T09:47:00.000-05:002007-11-30T09:57:22.123-05:00Reading the Universal Digital LibraryAs online teaching grows, we are always looking for good ideas and project partners to help foment the acquisition of knowledge and memes on the internet and in the virtual classroom.
The Universal Digital Library is an ambitious project we fully support:
Up until now, the transmission of our cultural heritage has depended on limited numbers of copies in fragileBoles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410621662136715082.post-43017340602211669672007-11-22T12:10:00.000-05:002007-11-22T12:22:59.579-05:00Kindle in the ClassroomThe greatest power in the new Kindle ebook reader from Amazon is the grand possibility of its use in the classroom.
Imagine how easy it would be to deliver up-to-date and of-the-moment textbook information to students?
You could all browse the morning paper together.
Course materials can be emailed and uploaded to the Kindle automagically.
The beauty of Kindle is -- even in the virtual Boles University ™http://www.blogger.com/profile/14733937512586962183noreply@blogger.com