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Designing for Interdisciplinarity

“Talking to colleagues across disciplines is not for the faint of heart.” [1]

Last weekend I picked up a copy of Interdisciplinary Conversations, published last month and authored by Myra Strober, a labor economist and Emerita Professor at the School of Education. I was curious what she had to say about collaboration in the particular [...]

Making the iPhone talk to Coursework

I recently was asked about ‘scanning’ capabilities of the iPhone, which brought me to this – currently $0.99 – application, called JotNot Pro. I was very impressed with this one. It launches the camera to take pictures of documents, steps the user through some adjustments, then processes the picture and removes what it sees as [...]

The Collaborative Lab

I just finished teaching a course that introduces Anthropologists to Geographical Information Systems. Labs form a part of many science courses, and this is not different in my class. What may be different is that I make the labs part of the class instead of part of the homework. And probably quite different is that [...]