Sounds from the past

One thing I love about the internet is the ability for universities to share their historic collections. UC Santa Barbara has digitized and placed online thousands of wax cylinder recordings recorded between 1894 and the 1920s.
The range is huge–interviews with political figures, music, vaudeville acts, and home recordings that discuss thanksgiving pie. [...]

Professor Avatar

Because I don’t have the $$ to read the full version of Chronicle of Higher Education, I usually scan through InsideHigherEd. (It’s sort of a Reader’s Digest version of the Chronicle, and free.)
There was a very interesting article today called “Professor Avatar” which discussed the ways in which our online personas mediate our interactions with [...]