Author: Larry Ferlazzo

Games With A Purpose

I’ve been reading a lot lately about GWAP (Games With A Purpose). It’s been developed by Carnegie Mellon University, and the site has several games that are designed in some way to help computers become smarter at...

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Backboard

The TechCrunch blog just posted about a new web tool called Backboard. It allows you to easily upload a document/picture, or grab an image/webpage off the Internet; describe it (or write whatever you want); and then you can...

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Rubrics

I’ve used rubrics periodically in my classes, and often have had students themselves work together to develop them for class projects.   I then have students use them to grade themselves.  Ninety percent of the time I keep...

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