Historical Archives
Image by lorda via Flickr Michael Pollan has a wonderful article in this week’s New York Times Magazine about the coincidental decline of cooking and rise of cooking shows. I have written about the pleasures of cooking a few times before. I really enjoy doing it and I love the results as well. Although I…
I really like Mark Bullen’s Net Gen Skeptic blog, because I, too, maintain a healthy skepticism about they hype surrounding the so-called Net Generation. I don’t think they’re all disengaged, tech-savvy people. When I teach and use something as simple as a blog, I have to teach about 80% of the class how to use…
I had the great pleasure today of leading a session on Personal Branding for Drexel University co-op students. I’m not what one might call a “guru” on the topic, but I’ve essentially been creating a personal brand since 1998. I also worked as a salesperson for a few years and have been through several job…
Yesterday, I started a long post about race that I just couldn’t finish. Suffice it to say, my relationship to race is complex, influenced by being raised in the South, by my own desire to figure out how the South got to where it is, and by people I’ve known and other places I’ve lived.…
Image by lorda via Flickr Dr. Crazy had an interesting post the other day on how she’s finally decided to put her foot down and not take the crappy time slots just because she doesn’t have kids. I’ve been sitting on that post since I read it and then Wendy at Outside Providence responded and…
Alex Reid and Tim Burke have both commented on this Chronicle article about SMU’s proposal to remove computers from the classroom. Both Reid and Burke have pointed out that removing computers does not guarantee that teaching will automatically improve. Burke notes that teachers who use PowerPoint as a crutch used to use notes or transparencies…
This New York Times article describes a summer program for middle schoolers where lesson plans are generated by computer algorithm. On the one hand, it sounds like many of the kids are enjoying the computer games that teach math. On the other hand, this seems like a scary prospect of kids sitting in front of…
There’s been a lot of talk around the blogosphere about Jack Welch’s recent comment saying that there is no work-life balance. As Laura at 11D points out, evidence certainly suggests that the government and businesses are not interested in providing policies that help people achieve balance. She directs us to a great quote from Conor…
Let’s talk about food. For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing my best to buy food responsibly, meaning buying plenty of local food, organic food, basically food that is good for me and good for the environment. That goal has been supported by the opening of a farmer’s market near me. And the…
ianqui writes about her mother’s problem with boundaries Cathy Davidson on this article quantifying the costs of humanities and social science publishing. I need to think about this more. One key figure for me: 47% of the cost is in the editorial process. In light of some things I’ve read, mainly Shirky, it seems the…
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