Office Hours
Short answer. What is a reasonable ethical number of office hours for a professor at a teaching-oriented college? Please explain. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
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Technology and Nostalgia
Read more: Technology and NostalgiaToday, in a conversation with a group of people planning a conference on writing in the digital age, we slipped into a conversation about classic rock. It was a tangent from the idea of “old” writing methods. I suggested “classic” and we were off. But then it turned into a more serious consideration of the…
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Unintended Consequences
Read more: Unintended ConsequencesToday’s post is a presentation I’m giving in just an hour and a half about social networking. I haven’t added all the cites yet, but this will update automatically. Enjoy! Update: Here is a list of the sources for most of this material. All of these are interesting and present a variety of views about…
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Downloading Movies and Music
Read more: Downloading Movies and MusicHas it been a week since I’ve blogged? Yikes. Mr. Geeky was away last week, so I was single parenting and then over the weekend, I convinced the kids to help me clean up around the house. So there. I spent the rest of the time watching bad tv and gaming. It’s what I do…
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Priorities, academics and administration
Read more: Priorities, academics and administrationI have some random thoughts I want to capture here that I’ve been thinking about over the last few days. I haven’t exactly figured out how this all ties together or exactly what I think, but I’m putting it out there anyway. I’ve written before about the ways in which administrative work is intellectual work…
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Why I Love Google Docs
Read more: Why I Love Google DocsA while back, I made a podcast (which seems to have disappeared) about how I thought Google docs weren’t quite ready for the education sphere. For some projects, that’s still true. If you need footnotes or even a lot of endnotes, Google docs won’t make that easy for you. But if, like me, most of…
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Video Game Addiction
Read more: Video Game AddictionA few weeks ago, I finally broke down and bought WoW. I’ve been avoiding this for years because I knew I’d love it. I’ve been playing during most of my free moments ever since. I’ve been playing video games since I was 12 and have always become quickly obsessed with the game du jour. I…
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Girls rule–sort of
Read more: Girls rule–sort ofI found this article about how girls are generally outpacing boys in Internet content creation interesting. I used some of the stats from the Pew study in a presentation a few years ago. I do think there’s a disconnect somewhere in that girls’ interest in blogging, creating web pages, podcasting, etc. often doesn’t translate into…
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New Kid drinks the Kool-Aid
Read more: New Kid drinks the Kool-AidBecause the synapses are still slow to fire, I’m going to point you to New Kid’s post about technology, which is really fun. I love just playing around with technology, but often no longer have the time now that it’s my job. Ironic, huh. Actually, I have to make the time. New Kid may have…
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Whither Geeky Mom?
Read more: Whither Geeky Mom?Sorry to have disappeared like that. We’re digging out from under the chaos that was created during the great flu epidemic. I had to do things like laundry and grocery shopping–whee! Plus, I spent time playing games and watching tv instead of blogging. It happens. Something about illness in the house makes your brain go…
