Weekend Reading

Ah, the crazy hedonism of the weekends!  Here are five links and a video to get you through:

• At Teaching College Math, Maria H. Andersen offers a 3-part series on “Organizing Your Digital Self”
• In light of this week’s post on “These Kids Today,” and the comments it drew, see this NY Times article on “Making College ‘Relevant’“  (via Elizabeth Kissling)
• This article on the Brooklyn Museum’s openness toward creative commons-style uses of its collections is encouraging
• Nicholas Carr’s latest provocation: “Information Wants to Be Free, My Ass“
• This week, I’m writing several letters of recommendations for students for local scholarships.  Too late, I remembered George’s handy checklist (adapted from Matt Kirschenbaum) for students when they ask you to write.

This video’s a year old, but it resurfaced on Twitter the other day after John Palfrey showed it in a presentation at the Educause Learning Initiatives meeting.

At my school, classes start on Monday, so this is the last weekend to sleep at all . . .

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