Everyone has their little tricks for getting higher grades on their exams. Usually they work well in high school, but tend to flounder a bit once you get to higher education. In short, you just need to study. Cramming hardly ever works, and pulling all-nighters is more detrimental than good. In order to get the [...]
There are only a few more days until the Halloween parties start. With Halloween on the weekend, you’ll likely be seeing parties on Friday and Saturday. If you haven’t gotten your costume yet, you might want to get yourself in gear. Of course, with the gap closing between now and Halloween night, it’s going to [...]
Last week was the week-long look at darker and lighter sides of Blackboard over at Hack College. This is the last post by Kelly Sutton, which gives three basic ideas of where Blackboard needs to be.
You know the ones. That’s right: staples. With pretty much everything being shared over e-mail or in a PDF file, staples are almost a thing of the past. Sure, they can be a novelty, but if you ask me, it’s getting kind of old. And, it might be tough when you’re rushing to get to [...]
I would say that one of Blackboard’s major setbacks is its integration issues. It seems to be more of a stand-alone program instead of being able to work with other little programs. With the advent of open source applications that could greatly improve Blackboard, they still haven’t caught up with the rest of us. Kelly [...]
I’ll level with you all right off the bat, I don’t like Jimmy Fallon. I don’t think he’s funny, I think he’s a hack, and I think he’s slightly more qualified than Carrot Top to take over for Conan O’Brien for the late night spot on NBC. He has no stage presence, giggles at everyone, [...]
Yesterday kicked off the first posting of the week-long series of, what I’m referring to as ‘The Blackboard Tapes,’ over at Hack College. It’s a pretty standard explanation of how everything is going to go. If you’re not exactly sure what the deal is with Blackboard or its current status, read through this post. If [...]
Remember last month when I discussed the Hack College post about Google’s new Google Doc to compete with the failing Blackboard application? I guess Blackboard read the post (the Hack College one, not mine. Sad, but true) and decided to fire back with some comments of their own. As a result, Hack College will be [...]
As the cooler months come, you’re more apt to have your parties indoors. As a result, you’ll still have the beirut [or, beer pong to all you heathens] table set up, but it will be in closer quarters. You’ll have to get creative. Once you are all proud of yourself for the set up you’ve done, [...]
Let’s face it, student I.D.s are made of plastic, flimsy, and all around worthless pieces of garbage. That is to say, their uses are good, but the craftsmanship that’s put into these cards is less than adequate. College students are college students, and the fact of the matter is that they’ll treat the damn thing [...]
