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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, a [...]
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 [...]
Search Engine Society Review