Matthew Luskey, assistant director of the University of Minnesota’s writing across the curriculum program, wants undergraduates in his classes to talk with each other when they first encounter an ...

Most faculty members have a go-to activity that can be deployed at a moment’s notice in the classroom. It might be a quick, five-minute writing task or a more-ambitious, small-group exercise. When ...

What’s It Like? Genius is a tool for annotating text online. An outgrowth of Rap Genius (a longtime tool for collecting and annotating rap lyrics online), Genius lets users annotate and analyze texts ...

Samsung recently introduced its long-awaited e-book reader for the American market, and while it has useful features, a big one is missing. The $299 Samsung eReader E60 will lack 3G cellular ...

The last time we explored Preview, OS X’s built-in document and image viewer, we discussed using it to crop and resize images, as well as how to undo those changes (see “The Power of Preview: Cropping ...