Mark A. McCutcheon's bookmarks
Conway, Kyle. How To Read Like You Mean It (AU Press, 2023)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 1 December 2023 @ 10:33amwww.aupress.ca - I can't highly enough recommend this new, open-access book by communication studies professor Dr Kyle Conway. Every student--and anyone who has been perplexed by a difficult read--should read Conway's concise, lively guide to active, engaged...Rules of the Academic CV
By Mark A. McCutcheon 4 January 2023 @ 9:53amtheprofessorisin.com - A must-read for grad students and scholarly professionals: how to produce, organize, and maintain an academic CV.Katja Thieme, "What Do You Teach When You Teach Writing?"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 24 November 2017 @ 11:58ammedium.com - "... the exact nature of the writing we want of students cannot remain an unspoken, un-analyzed part of a writing course. Students need to understand the genre, what it does, how it does it. They need to be enticed to use it, to do something with...Contronyms: words that mean the opposite of what they mean.
By Mark A. McCutcheon 5 January 2016 @ 10:04amwww.dailywritingtips.com - "The English language includes an interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms (also spelled contranyms, or referred to as autoantonyms) — terms that, depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings. When you..."Study finds that academic publishers basically charge whatever they feel like"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 8 July 2014 @ 4:30pmwww.mhpbooks.com - "publishers are using a lack of transparency about pricing—often secured by nondisclosure agreements—to charge different fees to institutions that are in other respects similar""Five strategies to improve writing in your courses"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 22 February 2014 @ 11:21amwww.universityaffairs.ca - The short version: Identify the genre of the assignment; Let students know how you'll evaluate it; Structure in opportunities for revision; Assign low-stakes writing; Contact the writing centreHenry Giroux: "Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 20 January 2014 @ 3:18pmtruth-out.org - "The mantras of neoliberalism are now well known: Government is the problem; Society is a fiction; Sovereignty is market-driven; Deregulation and commodification are vehicles for freedom; and Higher education should serve corporate interests rather...Claire Goldstene: "The Emergent Academic Proletariat and Its Shortchanged Students"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 20 January 2014 @ 3:05pmwww.dissentmagazine.org - "Ideas matter, and a majority of temporary academic workers jeopardizes tenure, academic freedom, and the intrinsically progressive methods associated with open intellectual exploration, thus narrowing a crucial intellectual space in which the...UBC president discusses 3 trends undermining higher education's mission
By Mark A. McCutcheon 20 January 2014 @ 3:02pmu15.ca - UBC president Stephen J. Toope, writing for the @U15ca blog, discusses three trends undermining #highered's mission & diversity: rankings; government control of research; MOOCs. "A constellation of trends is pushing universities in the same...Course syllabi of famous writers
By Mark A. McCutcheon 18 March 2013 @ 3:08pmtherumpus.net - Course syllabi of famous writersU of T president criticizes government and industry "zombie" attacks on higher education
By Mark A. McCutcheon 18 March 2013 @ 10:30ambusiness.financialpost.com - Via the Financial Post: Last week, David Naylor, the president of the University of Toronto, made a speech to Empire Club of Canada members about what he describes as educational zombies — government and industry calls for more job-specific...Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, & the Future of the Academy
By Mark A. McCutcheon 25 January 2013 @ 9:59ammediacommons.futureofthebook.org - The digital, comment-supplemented counterpart to Fitzpatrick's eponymous 2011 print book from NYUP. In what follows, then, I focus not just on the technological changes that many believe are necessary to allow academic publishing to flourish into..."How to deal with a mansplainer starring Hillary Clinton in gifs"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 24 January 2013 @ 7:40pmfeministing.com - A concise study in effective nonverbal communication during meetings with mansplainers. Useful for many situations outside the US Senate too."Challenge [UK Culture Minister] Vaizey: An Interview with Fin Kennedy"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 22 January 2013 @ 4:05pmtheoxfordculturereview.com - "Award-winning UK playwright Fin Kennedy is running a campaign to raise governmental awareness of the effects of arts funding cuts upon theatres ... "'Nurturing creativity in the young is like installing the software on which all the other...Ryan et al. "Professional Allies: The Storying of Allies to LGBTQ Students on a College...
By Mark A. McCutcheon 15 December 2012 @ 2:19pmwww.tandfonline.com - Ryan, M. et al. "Professional Allies: The Storying of Allies to LGBTQ Students on a College Campus." Journal of Homosexuality 60.1 (2013),: 83- 104 This article details the narratives of faculty and staff involved in a lesbian, gay,...Monroe, Rachel. "Baltimore Feminists Prank Victoria’s Secret - And Spark an Internet...
By Mark A. McCutcheon 11 December 2012 @ 8:31pm Comments (1)www.baltimorefishbowl.com - Not only an effective, progressive prank, but one that highlights the fair use of others' intellectual property for parody and critique.Pennee, Donna. "ENGLISH 9089B: The Cultures of University Governance."
By Mark A. McCutcheon 10 December 2012 @ 9:20pm Comments (2)www.uwo.ca - UPDATED: complete syllabus available online as PDF. Main readings (I should have put a bet on the third): Ian Angus, Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment. (Semaphore Series, Arbiter Ring Publishing) Gerald Graff, Professing...Chronicle of Higher Ed: "Demystifying the Dissertation"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 4 December 2012 @ 9:13amchronicle.com - Before you can write a dissertation, you must write a dissertation proposal. How to do that is worth a closer look. ... The dissertation process is the longest stage of graduate education and it begins with the proposal, the crafting of which is...Winslett, "Resisting 'innovation talk' in higher education teaching and learning"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 20 November 2012 @ 3:42pm Comments (1)0-www.tandfonline.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca - Winslett, Greg. ""Resisting innovation talk in higher education teaching and learning." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (2012). Abstract: The exhortation to innovate is a pervasive one that occupies a central position...Techdirt: New Book Makes The Case For Why Copyright Needs To Be Reformed
By Mark A. McCutcheon 20 November 2012 @ 1:41pmwww.techdirt.com - The post announces a new book from George Mason U on copyright reform in the USA, a topic propelled into the spotlight this weekend by the unexpected release and hasty retraction of a progressive report on copyright reform issued by a US Republican...Rules for Radicals: The Archivist's Edition
By Mark A. McCutcheon 15 November 2012 @ 3:07pmboingboing.net - Rogue archivist Carl Malamud's 10 Rules for Radicals is the transcript of his keynote at the 19th World Wide Web Consortium conference in 2010. It's a thrilling and often hilarious account of his adventures in liberating different kids of...Globe & Mail: "Supreme Court rules employees have right to privacy on work computers"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 25 October 2012 @ 10:27amwww.theglobeandmail.com - Workplace computers contain so much personal information nowadays that employees have a legitimate expectation of privacy in using them, the Supreme Court of Canada said in a major ruling Friday. ... It said that in some cases, the seriousness of...Shah, Nishant. "An apologia for copying."
By Mark A. McCutcheon 22 October 2012 @ 11:41amdmlcentral.net - This new regime of Intellectual Property regulation is an acknowledgment of the digital turn that has made copying so easy. Especially with digital natives, where copying is not merely an act of sharing but also an act of engagement, dissemination,...Ives, Maura. "Writing letters of recommendation for academic jobs." ADE Bulletin 125 (2000)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 12 October 2012 @ 4:05pmwww.mla.org - "One would think that it would be easy to find some useful published discussions of recommendation letters, but there seems to be very little written to guide faculty members in this difficult and crucially important task..." Here are some other...Live-tweeting at academic conferences: 10 rules of thumb
By Mark A. McCutcheon 12 October 2012 @ 10:56amwww.guardian.co.uk - Priego, Ernesto. "Live-tweeting at academic conferences: 10 rules of thumb." The Guardian 3 Oct. 2012. This article - a follow-up to last month's #Twittergate debate - provides some excellent, practical advice on best practices and courtesy for...No, you're not entitled to your opinion.
By Mark A. McCutcheon 5 October 2012 @ 9:58amtheconversation.edu.au - Philosopher Patrick Stokes reflects on teaching the difference between opinion and argument. He's reflecting not just on the philosophy classroom, but also on public discourse, and the ways in which declaring "entitlement to opinion" often shields...Chronicle commentary: "Want to change academic publishing? Just say no."
By Mark A. McCutcheon 24 September 2012 @ 9:05am Comments (4)chronicle.com - I agree with Gusterson's premise - scholarly publishers have an inordinate monopoly that insufficiently recognizes or remunerates academic authors, and I have also written a fair bit about this issue. But I disagree with his analogies (comparing...McSweeney's: My Grading Scale for the Fall Semester, Composed Entirely of Samuel Beckett Quotes
By Mark A. McCutcheon 31 August 2012 @ 11:05amwww.mcsweeneys.net - It's not only very funny, it's very accurate.How TO do Afrofuturism: "New Will.i.am Song Broadcast From Mars"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 29 August 2012 @ 11:20amartsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com - Will.i.am is maybe no Sun Ra or Lee Perry in the scope of his Afrofuturist imagination, but he's got everybody else beat for actual interplanetary transmission; and he clearly knows how to leverage the aesthetics of black diasporic science fiction...Butosi, Craig. "Coursera, or Socrates was not a Content Provider" (Academic Matters)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 27 August 2012 @ 11:14am Comments (2)www.academicmatters.ca - Western U grad student Craig Butosi closely reads Coursera's fine print and finds a neoliberal wolf hiding in OER sheeps' wool. The Globe and Mail reported recently that the University of Toronto was the latest signatory to an agreement with...How NOT to do Afrofuturism: "Sci-fi magazine publishes story about minority white race dominated by...
By Mark A. McCutcheon 27 August 2012 @ 10:03amwww.rawstory.com - The eminent US fantasy magazine Weird Tales‘s decision to publish an extract from a [self-published] young adult novel featuring a minority white race called the Pearls that is dominated by the black race of the Coals, which has been widely...Why study literature? The Norton anthology's editors discuss.
By Mark A. McCutcheon 26 August 2012 @ 8:39am Comments (1)www.nytimes.com - Founding editor and centegenarian scholar MH Abrams and fellow editor and New Historicist scholar Stephen Greenblatt talk about the Norton anthology and the raison d'être of literary studies. (The latter is clearly a question they're sick of...Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1983)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 20 August 2012 @ 1:33pmwww.scribd.com - Williams' critical dictionary of commonplace words remins a hugely useful resource for research. (It also inspired the book New Keywords, which is assigned for MAIS 601.)Slate: "Which pop culture property do academics study the most?"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 7 August 2012 @ 11:49amwww.slate.com - The short answer: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer by a mile." So there you go. It's not wasting time on Netflix, it's homework.Erika Jarvis: "How Toronto lost the drum & bass crown"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 11 June 2012 @ 11:06amwww.studiofeed.com - In which I get my first go-to-expert interview with a journalist on the subject matter of my doctorate (the North American rave scene). It's interesting how the decline and fall of Toronto dance culture has become a perennial media subject since...Earhart, Amy. "Digital Skills for Humanities Graduate Students."
By Mark A. McCutcheon 8 June 2012 @ 2:45pm Comments (1)www.digitalculture.org - "I’ve just concluded my first graduate course in digital humanities and have become convinced that the boundaries between teaching, service and research are surprisingly fluid in digital scholarship. Our class read a number of essays...Michael Geist: "Social Media Privacy Fears Are Legit, Let's Act"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 7 June 2012 @ 8:04am Comments (3)thetyee.ca - The House of Commons Committee on Ethics, Accountability and Privacy recently launched a major new study into the privacy concerns raised by popular social media sites. The study promises to canvass a wide range of perspectives as elected officials...BCCLA: "Electronic Devices: Privacy Handbook A Guide To Your Rights"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 5 June 2012 @ 12:51pmbccla.org - "The law around searches at the border was designed for a time when people could only bring a small amount of personal information with them, but seem out of date in a time when someone can bring every bit of personal data about them along in their...Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research to the Public Sector
By Mark A. McCutcheon 7 May 2012 @ 9:51amdigital-scholarship.org - This report touts the public cost savings of Open Access research dissemination policy in the UK. The total cost to the public sector of accessing journal papers is around £135 million per annum. The savings that accrue from the availability...Million Short: a search engine that removes the top 1 million most popular results
By Mark A. McCutcheon 7 May 2012 @ 9:31amhttp://millionshort.com/ - Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought might be somewhat interesting to see what we'd find...Stanford CIS blog: "A glance inside the clearance culture"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 28 April 2012 @ 6:38pmcyberlaw.stanford.edu - "... one screenwriter received a script report recommending he clear a mention of Noah from the Bible. As he noted, who was he supposed to clear it with? God?"Techdirt: "Canadian Universities Have One Week To Stop A Disastrous Copyright Licensing Deal"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 23 April 2012 @ 6:12pm Comments (7)www.techdirt.com - This Techdirt article gives both a good backgrounder and a timely condemnation of the "model license" agreement between AUCC and Access Copyright. This is a copyright Balrog that must not be allowed to pass (as in pass a huge cost on to...The Catcher in the Rye - by Richard Prince
By Mark A. McCutcheon 19 April 2012 @ 6:25pmwww.poetryfoundation.org - It’s a terribly ballsy move. Price is openly pirating what is arguably the most valuable literary property American literature, practically begging the estate of Salinger to sue him. Conflicted as I am about some of Prince's...Summary of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
By Mark A. McCutcheon 14 March 2012 @ 2:15pmvcn.bc.ca - Saul Alinsky, from the start of his widely influential 1971 book (summarized points from which this site presents): What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written...Financial Post: Private donors exerting more influence over universities
By Mark A. McCutcheon 12 March 2012 @ 10:51ambusiness.financialpost.com - Source: Angela Regnier (@angelaregnier). "RT @CAUT_ACPPU: Private donors exerting more influence over #universities #cdnpse #cfsfcee fb.me/1EFL5Bp8O #academicfreedom #cdnpoli." 10 Mar. 2012, 7:28 p.m. Tweet.The e-mail charter
By Mark A. McCutcheon 8 March 2012 @ 10:36amhttp://emailcharter.org/ - We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. (Here's why.) We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Charter... One of my favourite suggestions here...MLA: "How to cite a tweet."
By Mark A. McCutcheon 2 March 2012 @ 3:28pmwww.mla.org - I like the fact the citation format requires the whole tweet: it's good archiving practice (since one's Twitter timeline only stores one's most recent three thousand tweets).CAUT President: "AUCC's statement an academic freedom wake-up call"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 1 March 2012 @ 1:07pm Comments (2)www.cautbulletin.ca - AUCC’s new version of academic freedom dangerously conflates academic freedom with institutional autonomy. It suggests safeguarding the institution from outside powers will necessarily also defend academic freedom. While we must maintain...Io9: "Critical thinking explained in six kid-friendly animations"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 28 February 2012 @ 11:53amDennis O'Reilly, C|NET: "Future-proof your data archive"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 27 February 2012 @ 12:06pmhowto.cnet.com - Choose the best media and file formats to ensure your important digital documents, images, videos, and other files will stay safe and readable/viewable decades from now.Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
By Mark A. McCutcheon 23 January 2012 @ 4:21pmaupac.lib.athabascau.ca - "Providing clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma, this is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language."Slate: "Why Second Life failed...'milkshake test' predicts which ultrahyped technology will succeed"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 14 December 2011 @ 12:00pmwww.slate.com - The notion that Second Life "failed" will be contentious here, I expect. But I want to share this article because it makes a point that is, I think, a relevant one for the Landing, how it is perceived, and how it is used (notwithstanding the...Inside Higher Ed: "Revising Research: Maybe universities aren’t using English professors' time in...
By Mark A. McCutcheon 21 November 2011 @ 3:29pm Comments (4)www.insidehighered.com - Who's behind the Center for College Affordability and Productivity think tank? Its new "report" (commissioned by whom?) about literary research as "inefficient" is specious and insidious, premised on a neoliberal dogma of "efficiency" wholly...The Guardian: "Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 19 November 2011 @ 11:30pmwww.guardian.co.uk - This article makes an odd claim about postmodernism: that Internet culture spelled an end to postmodernist theory, partly by materializing it in practice as postmodernity. At times simplistic, at other times suggestive, it's an interesting enough...Slavery footprint: How many slaves work for you?
By Mark A. McCutcheon 8 November 2011 @ 8:08pmslaveryfootprint.org - Take this survey to find out what supply chains that come to your door may involve other kinds of chains. It's the kind of thing one suspects, but the research to go into tracking down the corporate tentacles of production seems like a project that...New Scientist: "Revealed: the capitalist network that runs the world."
By Mark A. McCutcheon 21 October 2011 @ 2:58pmwww.newscientist.com - This just in: Science has just confirmed what Cultural Studies has known for over thirty years. Okay, I'm not trying to start an academic turf war, just making a cheap joke about what looks like a super interesting new systems-theory study: AS...Supreme Court of Canada Stands Up for the Internet: No Liability for Linking
By Mark A. McCutcheon 19 October 2011 @ 11:30amwww.michaelgeist.ca - Michael Geist reports an "enormous win for the Internet" today: The Supreme Court of Canada today issued its much anticipated ruling in Crookes v. Newton, a case that focused on the issue of liability for linking to allegedly defamatory content...."The Distribution of all Wikipedia Articles"
By Mark A. McCutcheon 4 October 2011 @ 9:13pmwww.yfrog.com - Note how the global distribution of knowledge parallels (to some great extent) the global distribution of wealth. Click to enlarge for readability.420 Free Movies Online
By Mark A. McCutcheon 17 September 2011 @ 1:57pmwww.openculture.com - Well this should be a help when I get around to revising English 373: Literature and Film. There are some great discoveries here. Like an art-school film by David Lynch, which I heard about years ago but never saw until Youtube magic, just...Hall, Stuart. "The march of the neoliberals." The Guardian 12 Sept. 2011
By Mark A. McCutcheon 13 September 2011 @ 8:50amwww.guardian.co.uk - Cultural Studies founder Stuart Hall analyzes "the neoliberal engine at full throttle" in the present British government. Since the early days of Thatcher we have not seen such a ferocious onslaught on the fabric of civil society, relationships...NY Daily News: "Want a job? Major in liberal arts."
By Mark A. McCutcheon 5 September 2011 @ 4:59pmwww.nydailynews.com - Job-market utilitarianism isn't my preferred defence of the Humanities -- which we need for democracy and essential non-economic spheres of life (yes, they exist) -- but it's interesting to hear corporate category-killers like Jobs and Google extol...Pullum, Geoffrey K. "50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice" (re: Strunk & White)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 18 August 2011 @ 9:40am Comments (1)chronicle.com - What I am objecting to is not the style advice in Elements, which might best be described the way The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes Earth: mostly harmless. [...] But despite the "Style" in the title, much in the book relates to grammar,...Capitalism is the Crisis (documentary)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 12 August 2011 @ 10:20amwww.youtube.com - According to the director, Michael Truscello of MRU: The 2008 'financial crisis' in the United States was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest...Romantic Circles (& other online research sources for Romanticism)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 14 June 2011 @ 3:18pmhttp://www.rc.umd.edu/ - "A refereed scholarly Website devoted...G. D'Agostino. "Healing fair dealing?" [on Canadian fair dealing, UK fair dealing, & US fair...
By Mark A. McCutcheon 22 May 2011 @ 1:28amlawjournal.mcgill.ca - D'Agostino, Giuseppina. "Healing fair dealing? A comparative copyright analysis of Canada's Fair Dealing to UK Fair Dealing and US Fair Use." McGill Law Journal 53 (2008): 309-63.Comparison and contrast essays
By Mark A. McCutcheon 12 April 2011 @ 10:10amwww.sdc.uwo.ca - Posted by UWO's Writing Support Centre, this document offers a good introductory outline of how to write an essay of comparison and contrast. There are several other guides to writing comparative essays you may also wish to consult: U of Toronto...George Orwell Hated Crappy Writing
By Mark A. McCutcheon 15 March 2011 @ 10:39pmonehundredonebooks.wordpress.com - A digest of Orwell's still recommended rules for good writing in English, taken from his essay "Politics and the English Language." Also good, from the same blog, only more fiction-specific: Jonathan Franzen's ten rules for writing. Well, number...McCutcheon, trans. R. Garcia Perez. "La copyfight, la ciencia ficción y los medios de comunicación...
By Mark A. McCutcheon 1 March 2011 @ 10:25pmwww.rebelion.org - How's this for a QED for Creative Commons-licensing some of my research? I get to say I've been translated into Spanish. Now if only I spoke Spanish, I could assess the quality of the translation. I will at least say muchas gracias -- translating...The 1-step plan for super-productivity
By Mark A. McCutcheon 26 January 2011 @ 3:00pmthe99percent.com - There's just one problem with this one-step plan.E-mail etiquette for the super-busy
By Mark A. McCutcheon 25 January 2011 @ 10:08amthe99percent.com - Excellent ideas for managing high-volume e-mail.Glossary of Literary Terms
By Mark A. McCutcheon 17 January 2011 @ 1:41pmwww.english.cam.ac.uk - The U of Cambridge English department has posted a handy but short list of critical terms for literary study. Another list of literary and critical terms (with more entries on genre) is available courtesy of DePaul U.Global Voices Online
By Mark A. McCutcheon 20 December 2010 @ 11:09amglobalvoicesonline.org - "an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world"Raves in the Canadian public sphere: a working bibliography, 1992-2006
By Mark A. McCutcheon 2 December 2010 @ 9:00amwww.tribemagazine.com - I posted this biblio to a rave scene message board shortly after defending. It can be sometimes tricky to find archived posts there so I'm bookmarking it here for reference.Sample close reading of dramatic form
By Mark A. McCutcheon 28 October 2010 @ 3:55pmwww.athabascau.ca - This link to a sample "scene analysis" assignment for English 303: A History of Drama. The sample models the practice of close reading, in a short but pithy interpretation of textual details in one scene from Sophocles' play Oediups Rex.Seven elements of dramatic form for close reading
By Mark A. McCutcheon 28 October 2010 @ 3:52pmwww.athabascau.ca - This page provides instructions for the scene analysis assignment common to several drama courses in CLL; it also helpfully lists and describes the major elements of dramatic form and technique that represent the proper object of close reading, the...Strategies for Close Reading and Critical Reflection
By Mark A. McCutcheon 8 September 2010 @ 8:46pmlanding.athabascau.ca - A primer on "active reading" as a critical practice for engaging closely and reflectively with texts.Zotero: bibliography and annotation extension for Firefox
By Mark A. McCutcheon 8 September 2010 @ 8:41pm Comments (3)http://www.zotero.org/ - Zotero is an extension for the Firefox web browser (on PC or Mac, but only for Firefox) that helps you organize any and all online research sources: create quick citations in standard formats (e.g. MLA, APA); generate bibliographies; take notes on...The Ultimate Student Resource List
By Mark A. McCutcheon 28 August 2010 @ 1:01pmwww.lifehack.org - Free apps, online tools, useful websites: this list is a couple of years old now, but there are lots of apps and sites I'd vouch for here (OpenOffice, VLC, Delicious). It's a well organized intro to lots of free tools for study, research, and...Dropbox: Sync and Store Your Work Online
By Mark A. McCutcheon 28 August 2010 @ 12:59pmwww.dropbox.com - Dropbox is an online app for backing up work and synchronizing its updates among different computers. I wouldn't say it replaces storage-media backup like flash or external drives -- and there's always the question of security with third-party...
