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Swinburne + Hallmark = Faux Mother’s Day Cards

From one spring when I was teaching Atalanta in Calydon, two mock-Mother’s Day cards with loving sentiments from Swinburne: Card 1 Card 2 There’s some chance this is recycled from a previous year, but I think I purged that post … Continue reading

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Shocking news

From this morning’s InsideHigherEd.com: The college social scene is the setting or context for much of the unwanted sexual contact that happens on campuses, as a new report by researchers at the University of New Hampshire, exploring the experiences of … Continue reading

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No! More! Class!

Classes ended today; “all” that’s left now is grading, final papers/projects, and exams. But it’s still a moment of relief and some joy. (Why, yes, I did have complex issues in some of my classes this semester . . . … Continue reading

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An object lesson in excuses

Sometimes students are mystified when professors take a hard line on late work–but last night my computer *really* did crash / my grandmother *really* did die. Let me explain with an example from my own current organizational nadir: For several … Continue reading

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What am I talking about?

These action photos from a recent campus event–Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement Day–kill me. Viewed as a set, I seem to be fired up. In reality, I’m doing speaker introductions. This must be what the students are talking about when … Continue reading

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2 queries from a recent tee-ball practice

This has been a bad day (with no tech support lined up yet!), so I’ll keep this brief: 1.  What does it mean when other parents say, “Oh, so he’s your only child . . . that explains it”? and … Continue reading

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del.icio.us follow up

Here’s the upshot of my del.icio.us workshop today. It’s useful to have seen my del.icio.us assignment, if you haven’t before. (Here’s an official del.icio.us blog post about its educational uses.)           4 information-management problems My bookmarks are on my work … Continue reading

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Last-minute local announcement: del.icio.us workshop today

CCSU readers may be interested to know that I’m doing a workshop on del.icio.us for the recently re-branded  Instructional Design & Technology Resource Center (the old FCC) this afternoon, 4/30, at 1pm.  Free registration is required: http://www.ccsu.edu/media/ExpertsRegistration.htm

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How to think about the promotion & tenure process

On campus today we had our annual workshop on the renewal, promotion, and tenure process, hosted by the provost, the union, and HR.  There was also a panel of deans, the chair of P&T, and two faculty who had recently … Continue reading

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Burke & prejudice

At some point over the past week, this poster appeared in the stairwell I use every MWF: “All that it takes for prejudice to prosper is for good men to do nothing.”  As you can see in this detail, this … Continue reading

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