Comments for A Thaumaturgical Compendium http://alex.halavais.net Things that interest me. Thu, 01 Feb 2024 06:18:36 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on A Veiled Bear by Lucindy http://alex.halavais.net/a-veiled-bear/comment-page-1/#comment-539962 Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:03:31 +0000 /?p=574#comment-539962 Would you believe I received this card from a colleague (we taught together at NCSU–now retired). I had to laugh at your post. While getting my Ph.D., I took every craft class I could find: pottery classes, coiled pottery classes, wood turning classes, stained glass classes . . . . . anything to avoid working on my dissertation! Good luck!

]]> Comment on Six reasons I don’t like Blackboard by I Will Not Be Dumb Blackboard - BlackboardHub.Com http://alex.halavais.net/six-reasons-i-dont-like-blackboard/comment-page-1/#comment-539600 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 11:22:05 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/six-reasons-i-dont-like-blackboard/#comment-539600 […] 2. Six reasons I don’t like Blackboard […]

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]]> Comment on Six reasons I don’t like Blackboard by I Hate Blackboard - BlackboardHub.Com http://alex.halavais.net/six-reasons-i-dont-like-blackboard/comment-page-1/#comment-533658 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:52:35 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/six-reasons-i-dont-like-blackboard/#comment-533658 […] 6. Six reasons I don’t like Blackboard – A Thaumaturgical … […]

]]> Comment on Ask Alex: Getting a Communication Ph.D. by Elsa http://alex.halavais.net/ask-alex-communication-graduate-school/comment-page-1/#comment-489691 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:27:10 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/ask-alex-communication-graduate-school/#comment-489691 Am I the only one ho want to do Ph.D. because I am sick of doing Job. It’s the same thing again and again for the rest of your life. I seriously fall in love with papers and writing after getting my a Job

]]> Comment on Do online classes suck? by Joe http://alex.halavais.net/do-online-classes-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-469839 Tue, 08 May 2018 17:56:17 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=3321#comment-469839 I completed an online Master’s degree last year, and found many of my classes to be completely useless. I had two professors for a total of five classes, who simply quit interacting with the class halfway through the semester. When I complained about their lack of engagement, they either did not respond, or stated that the “conversations between students was more important than any pedagogical dictatorship I can impose”, whatever the hell that means. Frankly, I pay $1000 per class to learn from people who know what they are talking about, supposedly, not fumble around in the dark with a bunch of other students. Also, if an instructor didn’t show up to class for 3 weeks in a F2F setting, students would be lining up at the department head’s door to demand a refund. Online, the students have very little recourse when an instructor “goes dark”.

Instructor laziness aside, the other fundamental problem with online classes is the inability to have a real discussion that transmits as much information as a verbal one in real time. It may take a semester for a thread to have the same number of back and forth responses between student and teacher, which can be had in a single F2F classroom session. In addition, you have to read through sometimes voluminous responses from other students who don’t have a clue what they are talking about. There’s nothing more frustrating than reading through 30 pages of student posts (which are always in some degree inaccurate), only to find out the original question is never answered.

]]> Comment on Question: How many pages of reading for a graduate class? by Tina http://alex.halavais.net/question-how-much-reading-for-a-graduate-class/comment-page-1/#comment-468577 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 21:11:16 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/question-how-much-reading-for-a-graduate-class/#comment-468577 t include any articles I read for my dissertation as I’m trying to get the proposal going. I find it much difficult getting through all 500 pages, but i put an honest effort. I do work full time and carry a 14 unit load. I can get pretty close or can finish the reading when i don’t have presentations and papers due. But those assignments push me over to where I cannot get through it all.]]> I know this is an old post, but been inundated with reading for my PhD program and had to read what others experience. I read about 500 pages a week of mostly articles for my classes. That doesn’t include any articles I read for my dissertation as I’m trying to get the proposal going.

I find it much difficult getting through all 500 pages, but i put an honest effort. I do work full time and carry a 14 unit load. I can get pretty close or can finish the reading when i don’t have presentations and papers due. But those assignments push me over to where I cannot get through it all.

]]> Comment on Question: How many pages of reading for a graduate class? by Diana http://alex.halavais.net/question-how-much-reading-for-a-graduate-class/comment-page-1/#comment-443786 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:19:25 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/question-how-much-reading-for-a-graduate-class/#comment-443786 In reply to david silver.

Are you kidding me? You ONLY assign 100 pages a week for a GRAD class? I am in first year at U of T and get 150 pages of reading per course!!!! How is that fair???????

]]> Comment on A Fond FAoIRwell by alex http://alex.halavais.net/a-fond-faoirwell/comment-page-1/#comment-377231 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:08:48 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=19711#comment-377231 In reply to Jeremy.

Thank you! Especially for your help behind the scenes over the years.

]]> Comment on A Fond FAoIRwell by Jeremy http://alex.halavais.net/a-fond-faoirwell/comment-page-1/#comment-377227 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:14:17 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=19711#comment-377227 You have my perpetual thanks and appreciation for your efforts:)

]]> Comment on Why I Stay by Thursday Night Links! | Gerry Canavan http://alex.halavais.net/why-i-stay/comment-page-1/#comment-363638 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:50:11 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=19668#comment-363638 s bargain. This is why I stay, and why being ready […]]]> […] enter into something of a contract as a faculty member: we trade income for autonomy and security. If we do not use the latter, we enter a fool’s bargain. This is why I stay, and why being ready […]

]]> Comment on Why I Stay by Fie Upon This Quiet http://alex.halavais.net/why-i-stay/comment-page-1/#comment-362931 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:22:57 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=19668#comment-362931 I’m in my fifth year on the tenure track, and I have never held back my opinion for fear of ruffling feathers. Like you, I have said that I would not want to stay at an institution that expected me to be quiet and compliant for seven years so I could earn the right to speak via tenure. To me, that’s such a waste of time and energy. It’s certainly risky, though, and I’ve felt the sting a time or two. But overall, it’s paid off. We’ll see if it continues to do so.

]]> Comment on Why I Stay by Why I Stay – Planned Obsolescence http://alex.halavais.net/why-i-stay/comment-page-1/#comment-362493 Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:43:44 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=19668#comment-362493 […] Alex Halavais, “Why I Stay“ […]

]]> Comment on How to cheat good by Why I Stay http://alex.halavais.net/how-to-cheat-good/comment-page-6/#comment-362432 Sat, 12 Sep 2015 05:43:14 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=1427#comment-362432 t alone in jumping ship. I noted in a blog post that I had submitted my last grades at Buffalo, and many assumed I was quitting academia, rather […]]]> […] I was teaching was on the chopping block. Naturally, I wasn’t alone in jumping ship. I noted in a blog post that I had submitted my last grades at Buffalo, and many assumed I was quitting academia, rather […]

]]> Comment on Back to the Blog, Quitting Everything Else by Thom Gillespie http://alex.halavais.net/back-to-the-blog-quitting-everything-else/comment-page-1/#comment-349655 Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:50:58 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=19560#comment-349655 When blogging was new and big I rarely read blogs but as they became as you make-believe _anachronistic_ I seem to be reading more blogs regularly, but I think this has to do with blogs becoming more real and more personal, less about look_at_me and what I can do. What I seem to be doing is saving blogs that interest me with a single letter identifier in my favorites bar. You of course got saved as A. See if you can live up to your designation. Remember, you also have an ‘x’ in your name. 8-)

]]> Comment on The New University Press by Paperless. Done. - Learning Innovation http://alex.halavais.net/the-new-university-press/comment-page-1/#comment-272022 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:37:40 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2821#comment-272022 […] surrounded by them not because I refer to them very often.  Ditching my books, as recommended by Alexander Halavais, is a step too far for me at this point.  But I’m thinking about […]

]]> Comment on You may not see my receipt. by sandra http://alex.halavais.net/you-may-not-see-my-receipt/comment-page-2/#comment-271457 Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:06:48 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/you-may-not-see-my-receipt/#comment-271457 Oh this really ruffles my feathers. Can you believe my shock I received today after I purchased some stuff at Goodwill today? GOODWILL,,, the place where all the merchandises are given to them for FREE. Upon leaving the woman asked to see my receipt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOODWILL of all places. I’m appauled….

]]> Comment on bio by What Is The Impact Of Technology On Your Brain? | Distance Education For All http://alex.halavais.net/bio/comment-page-1/#comment-235949 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:46:30 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/bio/#comment-235949 […] changes in the way our students are being taught as the functions of educators keep changing. Alex Halavais, an internet researcher and associate professor at Quinnipiac University, said “We will think […]

]]> Comment on The New University Press by Andrée http://alex.halavais.net/the-new-university-press/comment-page-1/#comment-235896 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:12:47 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2821#comment-235896 I would reccomend using the ScanSnap SV600 that scans books and then I would sell or give the scanned books to someone else so they can enjoy them.

http://scanners.fcpa.fujitsu.com/scansnapit/scansnap-sv600.php

]]> Comment on Multinational People by Simon North http://alex.halavais.net/multinational-people/comment-page-1/#comment-235866 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:35:06 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=1972#comment-235866 I have three passports: British, Irish and Dutch. Strangely enough, I still get treated like a second-class citizen as if having an extra nationality was a dilution instead of an increment. I made a conscious choice to get my extra nationalities, I think that’s more genuine that acquiring a nationality by birth.

]]> Comment on Badges: The Skeptical Evangelist by A Brief History of Digital Badges in Higher Ed | Adam Croom http://alex.halavais.net/badges-the-skeptical-evangelist/comment-page-1/#comment-235703 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:18:17 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=3103#comment-235703 […] Quinnipiac University – Alexander Halavais (now at Arizona State University) created digital badges for a master’s level Sociology course. According to this EdWeek article, students grades were simply based on how many badges they earned. He has gone on to publish a wonderful piece on the “genealogy” of badges as well as a thoughtful critique titled “The Skeptical Evangelist.” […]

]]> Comment on Ask Alex: Getting a Communication Ph.D. by JSelah http://alex.halavais.net/ask-alex-communication-graduate-school/comment-page-1/#comment-235677 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:14:45 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/ask-alex-communication-graduate-school/#comment-235677 Well Alex, this is my third year (of four) in a communication doctoral program. I am busy writing the first three chapters (intro-lit review-methods) of the dissertation and will head to West Africa for archival research (my area of concentration is in Semiotics Studies) in July. The decision to give up a decent paying job to embark on the road to a Ph.D. has been EXTREMELY rewarding. I would make the same choice again without fail. Time REALLY flies by when you are in graduate studies at this level Alex.

I will add more in 2015, inshallah!!

Peace in the Middle East,

The Bronxite Selah

]]> Comment on Ask Alex: Getting a Communication Ph.D. by JSelah http://alex.halavais.net/ask-alex-communication-graduate-school/comment-page-1/#comment-235676 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:04:48 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/ask-alex-communication-graduate-school/#comment-235676 In reply to Alex H..

Thank you VERY much Alex!!

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