Is 8% too high or too low?

Yesterday was my turn to write a blog post, but I totally blanked out and did not have any ideas what to write about.  So, my first action in a situation like this is to randomly browse the Internet. I have various news sources on my portal page (I use myYahoo to aggregate various RSS

Can new types of social network sites engage student learning?

A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education discussed the emergence of social software sites that, as the article title states, “try to make studying feel like Facebook.” These sites are taking different approaches, but all are basically trying to draw student participation to themselves. And, of course, many of these are for profit