Subject: David Parry

• U.S. News Nods at Two UTD Professors for Taking Twitter to School

  chrisensell, via FlickrAt a little over 4,000 characters, this story from U.S. News & World Report is running our attention spans ragged -- but we think what they're doing today is throwing a national spotlight on two University of Texas at Dallas professors who've harnessed the awesome power of Twitter in their classrooms.History professor Monica Rankin gets a nod for inviting students to tweet her with questions during lectures, which then show up on an overhead projection screen, which sh

  June 2, 2009

• "Teaching Naked" at SMU

  Sorry, that's hardly as sexy as it sounds. But that is how José Bowen, dean of the university's Meadows School of the Arts, describes his edict to pull the plug on the technology clogging up the classrooms. Bowen, speaking to The Chronicle of Higher Education, doesn't buy University of Texas at Dallas profs Monica Rankin and David Parry's philosophy that the best way to engage students is by letting 'em tweet their way to the top; quite the opposite, matter of fact.Bowen's, ahem, old school: He

  July 21, 2009