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Who’s watching you when you are online & what you can do about it
(Source: Online Tracking 101: Who’s Watching You, Daily Infographic, Jan 19, 2013)
View ArticleWhat we’re reading #1: Audra Jennings reads about history, medicine &...
This is the first post in our new forum, What We’re Reading. It is very fitting that Audra contributed the first post, as the forum itself was her own brilliant idea! We hope you will soon share with...
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Flipping the classroom: iTunes U, iPad U & Apple’s challenge-based learning
Some key points Lynn University will require all new students to buy an iPad mini, that will come loaded with core curriculum texts and summer reading It is supposed to cost half of what they were...
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Going global
OK, it’s a slow news day … so, glancing at this blog’s stats for the day, I liked this list of top ten cities of visitors so much I just had to post it – it’s just such a unique configuration: Bowling...
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Martin Luther King Jr. on true education
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
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MOOCs: How game-changing are they & will they be?
[...] there was fairly broad-scale agreement that MOOCs and other technology-enabled education will be truly transformative in higher education only at the point that they give educators the tools to...
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WKU President Ransdell discusses higher ed funding, construction costs,...
Excerpt: Most students who come to a major four-year public institution with a broad range of academic programs do more than just get that credential. They grow, they learn how to reason, they learn...
View ArticleWorld conference for gifted education will be held Aug. 10-14 in Louisville
Local educators and parents will have a unique opportunity this summer to learn from the world’s leading experts in gifted education, and they won’t have to drive across the country or fly around the...
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Two art exhibitions on display in the University Galleries
The Department of Art invites you to view two exhibitions currently on display in the University Galleries, Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center (2nd Floor), Mon – Fri, 8 – 4.30) Sarah Wiseman: The Resonance...
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WKU offering Bonner scholarships
Members of WKU’s inaugural class of Bonner Leadership Scholars are (from left) Jillian Weston of Indianapolis, Joanna Williams of Clarksville, Tenn., LeLand Cantrell of Bowling Green and Mernisa...
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Civil War photo exhibit opens at WKU
Witness: Photographs of a Nation Divided, an exhibit presented by WKU’s School of Journalism & Broadcasting and the History Department, opened Jan. 23 with a reception at Mass Media and Technology...
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56 WKU students receive new DELO scholarship award for study abroad
WKU student Sarah Fox of Russellville participated in a study abroad course in Cuba. Fifty-six WKU students received a total of $17,100 in scholarship funds to participate in Faculty-Led Study Abroad...
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Tonight at 8 in Van Meter: 18th annual Prism concert
Just as a prism refracts light into a wide variety of shades and colors, the PRISM Concert will display the many “hues” of the WKU Music Department! PRISM is sure to be unlike any concert you have...
View ArticleHow WKU is involved in a project to make sure Bowling Green is an...
Did you know that every eight seconds someone turns 65? And in two decades more people will be over the age of 65 than under the age of 18? In this week’s View from the Hill, Amy Bingham tells us how...
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The cutting Edge: Are you reading ‘the world’s smartest website’? (The Observer)
We are reading it for The Web’s Impact on our Mind & Future, an Honors colloquium I am teaching this spring, which already has two student posts on the course blog! Please feel free to contribute...
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Globalism redux
I am sorry, but once again I just got such a kick out of the top ten visiting cities of the day to this blog – it’s just such an idiosyncratic combo: Bowling Green, San Francisco, Hopkinsville,...
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Is the web driving us mad?
Tweets, texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed – and may even create more extreme forms of mental illness, Tony Dokoupil reports Before he launched the...
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