Historical Archives
Today in my social studies class, we enter the 1880s with imperialism. It’s a very strange idea and concept, and personally, the separation from poor and rich, making them very far apart. Anyways here is how it went down. Imperialism, for those of you who don’t know, is one nation controlling another for five different…
Peg Single has another column in Inside Higher Ed about establishing a regular writing routine. Her audience consists of grad students writing dissertations and faculty writing books and articles. But writing is writing and doing it regularly every day is good practice. Although blogging is off-the-cuff and informal, I don’t doubt that blogging every day…
Over a year ago, I discussed the shift I was seeing in how faculty use their educational technology support staff. The shift I had noticed (and continued to notice until I left a year ago) was a shift from a consultative mode to a service mode. Instead of faculty coming and asking to sit down…
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Am I the only one who thinks academic conferences are weird? Why do they feel a little bit like a junior high school dance? For background, go read this post about my last academic conference. I’ll try not to repeat what I said there. Because I’m not in a discipline, I tend to go to…
Image by lorda via Flickr The reason I joined the NaNoWriMo activities even though I’m not writing a novel (which means I can’t officially win) is because having specific numeric goals is quite helpful. There’s also the group accountability of posting one’s numbers every day, comparing them to your buddies and to others. I’m still…
For you non-WoW players out there, PvP stands for player vs. player, a part of the game where, instead of fighting virtual monsters, players battle each other. There are PvP servers where this kind of fighting happens constantly in addition to the virtual monsters fighting one must do. But most PvP action takes place in…
Now as you probably already don’t know, I am an avid Runescape player, and have been studying it for quite some time. I would like to bring you into my realm of my studies. Well to start off with, they made a majority of trade between players not actaully be face to face. Like, you…
They do have their own blogs, I promise. But for some reason, it’s more fun for them to blog here. I think they like the audience. You can see the challenges I face: the sarcasm, the way-too-smart-for-their-own-good attitude. That comes from Mr. Geeky’s side of the family, I promise. At any rate, expect another post…
Hello people of Earth, Mars, and Wisconsin it is Tween Takeover Monday! Moving on I have been asked a question from one of my “fans” and they have asked the same question to my brother. “How do you feel about screen time for tweens?” he asked. I thought this question was too hard to comprehend…
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