The faculty members here are neither clairvoyant nor peering over shoulders. They, along with colleagues at eight other colleges, are testing technology from a Silicon Valley start-up, CourseSmart, that allows them to track their students’ progress with digital textbooks.
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Requiring nonprofit disability groups to ask permission from the government every three years and navigate a complex legal minefield to implement urgently needed accessibility technology is not compatible with progressive, conservative, or libertarian values; the goal of equal access for people with disabilities; or common sense. Even the librarian admitted in 2010 that the DMCA exemption process “is at best ill-suited to address the larger challenges of access.”
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Given that all we do is write about culture all day, we at Flavorpill are always fascinated by words and the tricksy ways they come to be. Recently, we’ve been thinking about the etymology of common words, particularly the ones that can be traced back to specific people in history, whether authors, scientists, or just wealthy estate agents who were, well, boycotted by the town around them.
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We’re neither a modest nor an ego-driven bunch at GLE, but an opportunity to share a peek behind our curtain is something we couldn’t pass up. Here is a profile of our own Julie Scriver borrowed (with permission) from the pages of the February 9th Telegraph Journal.
The works of 90 poets from across the nation are collected in this 256-page book and help to tell the often never-heard stories of black Canadian experiences. The book represents a huge creative range in the work of more than 90 poets, from page-based approaches to dub and slam—from George Elliott Clarke to Lillian Allen and Prufrock Shadowrunner.
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The 51-year-old has been charged with four counts of possession of stolen property. On Wednesday, police officers loaded boxes of artifacts into a rented U-haul trailer. RCMP Cpl. Scott MacRae said Tillmann’s collection was set up like a private museum. “[There's] old documents, there’s antiques, there’s things like a medieval suit of amour, old carvings, paintings,” he said. “One painting was … from the Nova Scotia legislature.”
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