Historical Archives
I came back from Fredericksburg raring to go and jumped right in to work yesterday. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I only got 50-75% of everything I wanted to get done completed. One task was delayed because some faculty had not gotten back to me, so I emailed them again. Don’t they realize they’re cutting…
Inspired by my time at Faculty Academy, last night I decided to give Second Life another try. For those of you who think I have no first life, I’d already been out for dinner and a movie (Shrek the Third) before venturing into the virtual world. I fired up my SL application, logged in, and…
So, I’m back in my hotel room after spending the last two days at the University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy. It was crazy for me to come here. I worked all day as judge of elections on Tuesday, from 6:30 a.m to 9 p.m. I left as soon as the votes were counted and…
Pennsylvania Voters Reject Tax Plan to Finance Schools – New York Times I worked the polls on Tuesday and heard many comments from people (especially older people) complain about the tax increase proposed to fund schools. The saddest thing is the income tax increase would have been offset much more significantly by a property tax…
Enjoy the weekend everyone and an early Happy Mother’s Day to all of you. I’m going to be away and occupied most of next week. When I get back, what do you all want to talk about? Leave me a note in the comments. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen…
Where Harvard goes, others often follow. I wonder what this will mean for the ramping up of tenure requirements that has occurred at “teaching” schools. I’ll believe this when I see it, of course.Tags: education, harvard, teaching Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Although we’ve had many, many instances of people getting into trouble because of things they’ve posted online, we still haven’t figured out where, exactly, to draw the line. Three separate incidents in the last week have me thinking about the issue more closely. First, at my own institution, there was an incident involving a party…
Up until this academic year, I used to hold workshops every week. The topics ranged from the practical (burning dvds and cds) to the esoteric (the philosophy of open source software). At first, the sessions were well attended. At their peak, I had as many as 25 people attending. Most of the people coming to…
“Mr. Bush said his veto threat would apply to any measures that ‘allow taxpayer dollars to be used for the destruction of human life.’” And the war is funded how? And the soldiers who died? Are they aliens? Non-human? And the civilians who die every day in that war? Not human? Tags: iraq, abortion, bush…
I’ve posted an update on the hd-dvd code incident on my other blog and my thoughts about why educators (really, everyone) should be paying attention. Tags: dmca, hddvd, digg Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
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