Historical Archives
Most of the time at home, I’m treading water, just managing to keep the family fed and clothed. Ever since I started working on the dissertation and pretty much dropped any regular routine in terms of cleaning, etc., the house has gone to pot. I pretty much kept to my usual routine of coming home,…
This has been a busy, busy week, filled with productivity and failure (yes, both). I have to say that the people I work with often rise to the challenge of difficult situations and we really do band together in that goofy, sappy way you think of when the chips are down. So I’m grateful that…
The article in Inside Higher Ed about some colleges shifting to a four-day work week to save on energy costs isn’t the first I’ve heard of this. NPR did a story on government offices doing the same thing. The comments at IHE indicate that some people think this is a bad idea, a poor use…
Over my vacation, I read Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. I picked this book up because Mr. Geeky and I got into an argument about driving in traffic. Specifically, he did not like the way I was driving in traffic on I95. This, as well as issues around map reading, is our main argument these days.…
In case you couldn’t tell, I was away last week. I’m going to try to maintain the vacation glow as long as I can, ignoring the fact that I’m headed into the busiest weeks of the year. I actually read 4 or 5 books while I was away and oddly enough, they made me think.…
A Chronicle article highlights a collection of books pointing out that Americans are getting more stupid. Many of these books blame the internets. I haven’t read any of these books, so I don’t know what they all blame, but in the brief synopses provided by Benton, it seems none of these books blame the economy…
I didn’t write about the NY Times article on how the Internet is causing reading to decline, but a few others did. I’ve been thinking about it and discussing it with others. My thoughts aren’t fully formed. This morning, I was reading this post and then this one, and they’re not really related, but they…
I found this article by Paula Krebs to be quite revealing about faculty vis a vis collaboration. Everything I do is like the Institute Ms. Krebs ran. In fact, I direct or co-direct an Institute every summer. Many staff do these kinds of things here because most faculty won’t. Any project I do has to…
I was going to say education, but I think it’s bigger than that. I spent some time this morning reading around a collection of linked blog posts and articles related to connectedness, web 2.0, education, democracy, etc. Jen argues that the future of education is not Web 2.0, and I think I agree. It’s not…
My students and I reading some articles and blog posts focused on the issue of technology integration into courses. We’re also interviewing several faculty to find out what they use, why they do or don’t take advantage of technological resources, etc. It’s been interesting so far. Today’s reading includes this blog post by James Farmer…
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