Category Archives: Technology

In defence of security updates

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Larry Cornies

Users of self-hosted WordPress blogs, like this one, should be aware that a worm is making its way through WordPress sites that haven’t been updated with the latest security releases. A more detailed explanation from WordPress is here. If you … Continue reading →

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Liquidity in textbook form

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Larry Cornies

Last weekend, when I asked my daughter-in-law about her new job, she tossed back a term I hadn’t heard before: “liquid textbooks.” The more she talked about it, the more I was intrigued. I was very happy for her on … Continue reading →

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Teaching, learning, technology and students

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Larry Cornies

I’m frequently asked how teaching and learning have changed over the past decade. What are students like? How are new technologies affecting how you teach and how they learn? That kind of thing. The video below, produced by a cultural … Continue reading →

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The Bandidos trial and Twitter

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Larry Cornies

Like some other readers, I’d wondered why The London Free Press had recently allowed its groundbreaking coverage of the Bandidos trial via Twitter (see my earlier post) to dissolve into a hit-and-miss affair that, increasingly, is absent altogether. Stories and … Continue reading →

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New tools for journalists will change postsecondary programs

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Larry Cornies

After a week of intensive training at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., my thinking about how we train journalists has changed in some ways and remained firm in others. I became convinced of the Poynter faculty’s argument that … Continue reading →

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