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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: November 2008
Hello, world
Jasper Lyle Campbell Halavais, welcome to the world. (Lesson one, your dad sucks with a camera.)
A farewell to academia
There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, [...]
Posted in Teaching Tagged Alternative education, Council of Independent Colleges, Criticism of college and university rankings, Eleanor Duckworth, General, good teacher, intercollegiate sports programs, Ivy League, mid-career professor, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Pragmatists, professor, Teaching, University administration 3 Comments
Intro Cyberculture Syllabus (Rough!)
So, I somehow “volunteered” to create a new course at the undergraduate level, to be offered (mainly) as a service course–i.e., not to our majors, but as part of a humanities breadth requirement. I’ve appropriated the term “cyberculture,” though I probably mean cyberpunkish. This is a very rough draft–I’ve just shared it with my colleagues, [...]
Professor Wikipedi
A reasonably interesting send up of Wikipedia: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Home Hologram Setup
So, you know what the big news from this week is: the CNN holograms. “Help me Wolf Blitzer, you’re my only hope.” In class last night we talked a little about this, and how hard it would be to get one of these things to play with. Well, I contend, not as hard as it [...]
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