Tag Archives: Tools for Teaching

Lunch & Learn: Research and Writing on the iPad with Will Howarth

Posted on February 17, 2011 by John LeMasney

Will Howarth, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Eng­lish at Prince­ton, spoke to a large Lunch ‘n Learn audi­ence on Feb­ru­ary 16 about how he uses his iPad as an essen­tial com­pan­ion to read­ing, writ­ing, research and travel.
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Lunch & Learn: New tools for writing with Professor Emeritus Will Howarth and Jon Edwards

Posted on December 21, 2010 by John LeMasney

Scrivener, an inno­v­a­tive soft­ware pack­age for writ­ers, was the topic of last week’s Lunch ‘n Learn, led jointly by Pro­fes­sor Will Howarth, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Eng­lish at Prince­ton, and Jon Edwards …
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Lunch & Learn: Bottom-up social data collection with allourideas.org and Matthew Salganik

Posted on December 2, 2010 by John LeMasney

In this week’s Lunch ‘n Learn, Matthew Sal­ganik, an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor in Princeton’s Depart­ment of Soci­ol­ogy, pre­sented some recent research that has resulted in the cre­ation of an open-source polling site called AllOurIdeas.org
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Lunch & Learn: Improving Wikipedia

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jon Edwards

Wikipedia, said David Good­man at the Octo­ber 13 Lunch ‘n Learn sem­i­nar, is by far the most used online ency­clo­pe­dia, and the most ref­er­enced source in the world, with more than 338 mil­lion unique vis­i­tors a month. It con­tains arti­cles in more … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: “e-Readers in the Classroom?” with Janet Temos, Stan Katz, Dan Kurtzer, and Trevor Dawes

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Jon Edwards

In the Fall term of 2009, Prince­ton con­ducted a pilot spon­sored by the High Mead­ows Foun­da­tion, the Uni­ver­sity Library, and the Office of Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy, to assess the use of e-readers in the class­room. The reader used was the Ama­zon … Con­tinue read­ing →

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