Historical Archives
One of my frustrations with the time it took me to finish the menial labor (10 hours all told) was that it was putting me further and further behind. I had been on vacation just before Memorial Day. I returned to 4 days of intense planning for the following week of 9-5 training. That meant…
Yesterday, I shouted out via Twitter my frustration at having to do some menial labor on behalf of a couple of faculty. I actually didn’t mean to shout that to the world, but most people sympathized, even empathized. I’ve been trying ever since to analyze the reasons for my frustration. I’ve had the experience in…
Friday’s Chronicle posted this article suggesting that web sites should be reviewed and certified by scholarly organizations so that they can be “counted” by tenure and promotion committees. I was bristling as I read this, thinking that Olson missed the point of electronic scholarship entirely. And, as it turns out, Barbara Fister at ARClog expressed…
As of 1 a.m. today, I am officially the mother of a teenager. Geeky Boy turned 13. Holy cow, how’d that happen? Wasn’t he just 2 last week? People ask me all the time if he’s a “typical” teenager. I don’t think so–mostly. He does a few typical teenage things, like sleep until noon. But…
Andy writes a post about how everyone’s taking this whole EDUPUNK thing too seriously. Maybe that’s true, but I think it’s interesting how people get their panties in a wad over some people encouraging others to have fun in teaching and learning. And who are having fun themselves. Maybe it’s the other people taking themselves…
Actually, women and any career, again. There have been numerous posts about a recent report on the lack of women in science and technology careers*, pointing to the sexism and macho culture as the main reason women leave these careers. Needless to say the comments on some of those posts have been frustrating. My least…
Like Alan, I had my head down while the Edupunk meme flew around the blogosphere and landed in the Chronicle. I first caught wind of it at Leslie’s (which seems to be where most everyone else caught it, too), and she provides a great summary of the whole movement. My favorite post so far, however,…
In the composition field, process has been the buzzword for well over 20 years. The idea behind the buzzword is that for good writing to happen, teachers can’t focus on the commas and spelling. Some attention needs to be paid to how that writing gets onto the paper in the first place. Only then will…
I’m getting all my good ideas from Dean Dad lately. Yesterday he writes about golf serving as a generational boundary. The comments are especially good and I’d recommend reading this one from Eyebrows McGee. He gets at some of the complexities behind Dean Dad’s discomfort with “Of course, there’ll be golf.” It’s about jobs, economics,…
Dean Dad comments on the IHE article from yesterday about studies showing that academics have fewer kids than other professionals. Dean Dad asks specifically how we make this work. Honestly, it’s gotten easier as the kids have gotten older, but it’s still hard. I especially feel guilty that I can’t be here when my kids…
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