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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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Archives
Monthly Archives: July 2003
Best Happiest place on earth
Reading Metafilter today, I am struck with how lucky I am. In some countries, journalists who question the party line can expect the government to start whispering campaigns against them. Some countries call themselves democratic, but when minority representatives get out of line, the police can be used as a threat against them. In some [...]
More than six degrees
David Hampton, the protagonist of John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation” recently died in New York. He [...] briefly experienced the glamorous Manhattan life that had first seduced him from his upper-middle-class home in Buffalo, a city that he once said lacked anyone “who was glamorous or fabulous or outrageously talented.” Add this to the [...]
Evercourse
On Fark this morning I see that Aaron Delwiche made the smart move of channeling his Everquest addiction into a new course in virtual ethnography. I had wanted to do this in my grad course last year, but didn’t get the chance. I’m glad he’s tested the waters, and I wonder how the course turned [...]
Packing Light
I’m back. It was good to get away for a little bit. Great oportunity to gain a bit of perspective. However, until I work out exactly what that perspective is, I don’t think I’ll blog about it. Has something to do with not having as much fun in my chosen profession as I once did. [...]
On the road
Driving out to Chicago for a while to attend a wedding. (House burglers who may read my blog: nota bene, we have a good alarm, a big dog, friendly/nosy neighbors, and absolutely nothing you couldn’t pick up for less than the price of a six-pack at a garage sale.) It’s easy to forget that you [...]
Media law student evals
Proving once again that my finger is pretty far from the pulse of student attitudes toward a class, the teaching evaluations (quantitative and qualitative) were much worse than I expected them to be. That isn’t to say that they are horrible–they are just slightly higher than average for the department–but I had thought the class [...]
You say it’s your birthday?