The Quintessence of Ham

This fall I, along with many oth­ers, will use Zotero groups in the class­room for the first time. With their unprece­dented col­lab­o­ra­tive func­tion­al­ity, Zotero groups promise to trans­form the way that instruc­tors and stu­dents inter­act with sources, par­tic­u­larly in research-intensive classes. Although the Zotero groups func­tion­al­ity is already well-established – there are cur­rently over 3200 pub­lic and pri­vate groups active at zotero.org – over the course of the semes­ter I fully expect to dis­cover areas where we could add or improve fea­tures, and I also look for­ward to refin­ing how best to inte­grate Zotero into what passes for my ped­a­gogy. » Read the rest of this entry «