The Lazy Student's Guide to Campus Life - Robin Raskin Blog, Yahoo

Dartmouth has dozens of RSS feeds and podcasts to keep you informed. There's the school paper, the school's game scores, and interviews with various Dartmouth staff to name a few. And it's all up so that it comes via email to you anytime something new appears on the site. Missing a class is no big deal either now that more and more professors put their notes or entire lectures up on the web. Some use text notes or Blackboard technology, a system for writing notes on a special board and them having them delivered electronically to students. Others are podcasting their lectures with audio and sometimes video. University of Texas' (Austin) website houses the World Lecture Hall. It publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the web to deliver course materials in any language.

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