Category Archives: Databases
FRED Resources Highlighted in Today’s New York Times
Economics reporter Neil Irwin wrote about his technology-related workflow in today’s New York Times. In, “Why ‘Fred’ Is the Best Friend of Economics Writers,” he says: Economics is a topic full of data. What tools do you use to parse that … Continue reading
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Free Book on Ed Tech Policies, Practices, Procedures
On behalf of my co-teacher Jeff Stanzler, we are pleased to announce our yearlong ED 504 class project — a book for teachers about ed tech policies, practices, and procedures — has been published! We’re printing copies on our campus … Continue reading
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Video: Mimi Ito at UMSI
This week, we were delighted to have Mimi Ito, anthropologist and scholar of digital media and youth, visit the University of Michigan School of Information as the annual speaker for the John Seely Brown Symposium. Ito’s Imbalances in the pelvis, … Continue reading
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Interesting news from Gale Cengage — the Chilton database of car repair manuals now has eBay Motors integrated to facilitate going from, “What’s wrong?” to ordering the part. Are there other databases out there that expressly connect information to an … Continue reading
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