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Category Archives: higher education
Deploying the iPod Touch in a classroom
Put the case that you were piloting the widespread deployment of iPod Touches in a classroom. You can assume the following: Two sections of the same class will be taught in a 5-week period. For the sake of argument–let’s call … Continue reading
Posted in academe, higher education, iPod Touch, teaching
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Updates to two recent posts
Two points that, while interesting, don’t quite merit their own entries: If you were interested in the recent post about online quizzes in lit classes, then you might be interested in this posting from Tomorrow’s Professor about crafting effective multiple … Continue reading
Posted in academe, higher education
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Changing attitudes among students and faculty
Earlier this month, UCLA reported on their triennial survey of faculty attitudes and values, “The American College Teacher.” (Here’s the study; here’s the InsideHigherEd.com writeup. Quotations below are from the latter.) The above-the-fold news from the study was that faculty … Continue reading
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A small proposal for (esp. junior) faculty
Everyone in graduate school gets drilled into their head that they should be good to the department secretaries. Department secretaries can accomplish all sorts of excellent things–they can expedite your travel paperwork, teach you the funky new copier, make sure … Continue reading
Posted in higher education, teaching
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Satisficing & grading
I’m slow with the grading. Some of it is garden-variety procrastination; some of it is bad planning (assignments for different classes coming in at the same time); some of it is overcommitments elsewhere; some of it is figuring out the … Continue reading
Posted in higher education, teaching
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Online quizzes for lit classes
A couple of years ago, I began requiring online reading quizzes in my 200-level lit classes (Brit Lit II, plus topics-based courses for nonmajors). This year, I’ve extended it to any class where there’s assigned reading. As usual, there are … Continue reading
Posted in higher education, teaching
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About online grading
Katy asked for a post about grading with the computer, and I always try to honor requests, so here goes: Online grading doesn’t save me any time, although that’s probably because I do it badly. The main benefits I get … Continue reading
Posted in higher education, teaching
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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