9th Wonder to teach at Duke University....

I see some of the confused faces out there. Who?? I have never heard of this guy or his music. Not so fast. You MIGHT want to go look at your linear notes for your favorite artists like Jay-Z (which honestly if you DO know him, that is how), Little Brother (where he was the main producer for SEVERAL YEARS and broke out at), Destiny's Child and a few others.



So it looks like they have given a class down at Duke. The class is called "Sampling Soul". He was born in Winston-Salem, NC but is from Raleigh, so this is not that far fetched. This is also not his first time having this honor bestowed on him. Along with Chris "Play" Martin, he also did some work at North Carolina Central instructing a Hip Hop History class there as well. Ya'll are some lucky people to have the art form of music that you love actually be an accredited class! I WISH the genre would have even been accepted to the level it is now at the time I was in school. Never mind having a class that counted towards graduation on my docket.

To me, he is a very underrated craftsman. Yes, he is known but people are really 'dismissive' of his talents. He is much better than given credit for. Some are also TOO CRITICAL of him to me but hey. That's their right I suppose. I am pretty sure they don't have those same standards for themselves though. lol

Anyway, enjoy the video.

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Finally. The end of the textbook for school. Maybe..

Link:

College students could soon be able to ditch their backpacks and put their textbooks into their shirt pockets thanks to a new program that will let them read their books using iPhones or iPod Touch devices.

CourseSmart of San Mateo, California, already makes more than 7000 college textbooks from 12 publishers available to its subscribers online via their computers, but now the company has added "eTextbooks for the iPhone," allowing students to free themselves from even having to lug around their heavy laptop computers.

There are a couple drawbacks -- you have to be connected to the Internet to view the books you can access with your CourseSmart subscription on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and the first version of the new app doesn't allow users to add notes in the margins.

The app itself is free from Apple. "


Article here..


A school in PA (Drexel University) is using the technology for their students this fall. I hope this does become widespread. Technology finally being used for REAL GOOD. I love it.

Not the idea is exactly 'new'...an example here in Iowa

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