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Monthly Archives: February 2009
My current tech crush: Dropbox
Anyone who regularly accesses multiple computers knows how hard it is to keep track of files. That’s why Zotero now offers online syncing & backup, why MobileMe offers Back To My Mac, why flash drives are so popular, and why, … Continue reading
Posted in productivity, software, things I love
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Take attendance with your phone
I have a review of the iPhone app Attendance up at Macworld, which is pretty cool. (More to come, too!) A taste: Ever since I moved to an electronic gradebook, keeping track of attendance has been a nagging problem. Usually … Continue reading
Posted in gadgets, iphone, review
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A miracle of the Force
I was gobsmacked on Friday when something happened for the first time in 10+ years of teaching: A student produced a reasonable definition of the word canonical. It was a first-year student, in a composition class. And how did the … Continue reading
Posted in family, higher education, star wars, teaching
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An offer to UConn
Readers outside CT may not be aware that there is currently a mini-scandal in the state about retired employees, including faculty members, who keep working and are thus drawing both pension and pay from the state. Sometimes this is fairly … Continue reading
Posted in connecticut, education, higher education, silliness
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Stanley Fish is irritating, and not in a good way
Today’s Stanley Fish column about academic freedom & fantasies of academic exceptionalism offers a good example of his strengths and his considerable weaknesses as a columnist. For example, I think this is both true and too-infrequently said: But this is … Continue reading
Should MLA members be experts in electronic environments?
Alex Reid has a typically thoughtful post this morning on the MLA’s recent white paper on the undergraduate major in language and literature. There is something a bit embarrassing about the MLA’s assertion that competencies in reading and writing translate … Continue reading
Posted in education, English major, higher education, mla, teaching
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The true meaning of a Ph.D.
In the Feb. 16 issue of The Sporting News, Shaquille O’Neal explains what a getting a doctorate means to him: SN: I understand we’ll soon have to call you Dr. Shaq. O’Neal: That’s right. SN: When will that be? O’Neal: … Continue reading
Posted in higher education, silliness
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Teaching Carnival 3.1
Once, long ago (before Twitter!), a man named George had a simple idea: since so many faculty members blog, why not start a carnival “devoted to gathering select blog entries related to teaching issues in higher education”? And so he … Continue reading
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