(Double) Tech Tuesday
First let me apologize for my absence — even College Ave can run into back-end tech issues. We should be good to go from here.
To compensate (and so I don’t have to change the name of this feature to Twitter Tuesdays), here’s a mini Tech Tuesday roundup.
Take this, Twitter haters: Tweeting may actually be helping students develop prose, according to a Chronicle of Higher Ed article about the Stanford Study of Writing, run out of Stanford University. Early results of the study, which collected academic and extracurricular writing of 189 students over the course of five years, showed “students took pains to cultivate tone and voice, and to address a particular audience.” There are critics of the theory — as the Chronicle points out — who say Twitter hasn’t made a significant impact on things like test results. I guess we’ll have to wait for the final results, but so far, I haven’t seen any sonnets pouring through my feed.
“Wait, does this thing have GPS?”: A student at Carnegie Mellon University helped police catch actors who robbed him at midnight last Friday — thanks to his iPhone. The senior cognitive science and human-computer interaction double major was approached by the suspects, who took his iPhone and debit card as well as his pin number, while walking down a street alone, according to an article in The Tartan, the university’s student newspaper. After the suspects left, the student returned to his apartment, downloaded Skype and called his friend. Together, the two contacted police and tracked the suspects’ movements through a combination of MobileMe, an Apple app that syncs and iPhone and displays it’s exact location using GPS, and GoogleMaps, watching as they spent hundreds of dollars around the city. Finally, when they stopped for dinner, police arrived and took them into custody. Guess those iPhones are better for something than just looking like a hipster important.
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