Historical Archives
I think I can safely say that most, if not all, faculty go into a classroom with the idea that their students will learn something. Many spend a lot of trying to guarantee that learning will happen. They think long and hard about what students should learn and the process by which they should learn…
I consider myself a nice person (mostly). I have my occasional moments, but generally, I feel that I’m a good citizen of the world in terms of sympathizing/empathizing and wanting to help my fellow human beings. Mostly that’s localized in that I tend to help people I know rather than strangers on the street, but…
Who’s idea was it to take the most heavily trafficked and congested stretch of highway and put points along the way where the whole mob has to come to a halt to take tickets and pay tolls? Seriously, are people just trying to be cruel? Speaking of tolls, I have no idea where that money’s…
I did it. I voted for Hillary. I’d like to say I have really good reasons from a policy standpoint, but I don’t. On the issues I care about, there’s not a huge difference between Obama and Clinton. And honestly, if the election had been held a month ago, I probably would have voted differently.…
I had the great pleasure today to talk to students in Anne Dalke’s “Emerging Genres” class about what it is I’m doing here at Geeky Mom. I was preceded by my esteemed colleagues, Kate of Syllabub and Tim of Easily Distracted. It’s a tough act to follow since their writing is so much more polished…
Here’s this argument again. Read the comments. They’re fascinating. I don’t have any problem with dictating that students close their laptops on occasion, but banning altogether is ridiculous. We need to keep working to find a way to engage the technology and our students. And you gotta just love the nostalgia of this quote: students…
I’ve just returned from NITLE’s Learning to Write in the Digital Age conference, a conference I helped put together along with a lot of other wonderful people. We did so virtually, via NITLE’s video conferencing software and we also relied on the generosity of attendees to talk about their work. Though some were worried about…
Had to file extension for taxes. First time in probably 10 years. We lost our W2’s, had to get them reprinted. Yesterday was the day of losing documents. Lost two docs–one completely and one I was able to recover. Haven’t done that for 10 years either. I also worked 11 hours yesterday. I have no…
The quote came in response to a question from the audience about how to create more faculty like Michael Wesch. Michael said, “Get out of my way.” This is just my perspective, based on my 5 years’ experience in this specific role and my over 10 years’ experience in higher ed. Many IT people and…
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