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Tweets
- Someone has been kind enough to point out that this is *exactly* the luck of the Irish, BTW. (I am irony-blind!) 2 days ago
- Microsoft keeps bugging me. http://alex.halavais.net/ms-for-your-protection 2 days ago
- I do not have the luck of the Irish. Got 2 flat tires on my way back from school Weds night. Replacements won't arrive for a week. 2 days ago
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 6 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 1 week ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 1 week ago
- Yeah, yeah. Lady Gaga video. But I like the new Kate Nash: http://is.gd/anfMX 1 week ago
- Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year. 1 week ago
- These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Blogging for lazy people
Blog memes are for lazy bloggers. I am a lazy blogger. Blog memes are for me.
Things I’ve done are in bold.
Things I am indifferent towards or actively would like to avoid are crossed out.
Things in normal type face are things I’d like to do.
Comments in parentheses are my addition. I got this version from Quod [...]
And he looks so cute…
… in his little red suit.
Jasper is coming up on five weeks old now, and is starting to develop a personality. He was very into crown moldings and lights from the day he came home, but now he is starting to recognize voices and look at that person, and looks at different parts of your [...]
Against letter grades
Next semester, no quantitative grades until the end of the semester. No As, no Fs, no 83%. At least one study has shown that grades not only do not help students, they actually impede their performance (Butler, 1987). Students tend to take a horse-race approach to grading, and pay less attention to how they are [...]
Against assessment
When you assess something, you are forced to assume that a linear scale of values can be applied to it. Otherwise, no assessment is possible. Every person who says of something that it is good or bad or a bit better than yesterday is declaring that a points system exists; that you can, in a [...]
I love it when a course comes together
I’ve turned in the last of my grades, and the semester is over. I was pretty happy with all my courses this semester, and particularly with one of the two versions of the “Introduction to Interactive Communication” seminars I led. It made me think a bit about what makes a course go well or poorly. [...]
The 1-1-1 map
I live in a part of New York that is sometimes called Manhattan Valley. You wouldn’t know why until seeing this snapshot from Google Earth. Though almost all of lower Manhattan now has skinned buildings, my area does not. It’s ironic, since the building across the street (at 100th and Broadway), which shows as a [...]
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