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I love it when a course comes together

By alex | Published: 12/20/2008
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. […]
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What Jasper’s Not

By alex | Published: 12/16/2008
I just ran across our list of names that Jasper ended up not being. We might still draw on these at some point (future children, dogs, projects, robots, servers, etc.). But for now, here were some that made the short list: Malachi, Duncan, Quinlan, Alaric, Hudson, Alistair, Declan, Xavier, Huxley, Lucien. And ones that got […]
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Hello, world

By alex | Published: 11/24/2008
Jasper Lyle Campbell Halavais, welcome to the world. (Lesson one, your dad sucks with a camera.)
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Intro Cyberculture Syllabus (Rough!)

By alex | Published: 11/18/2008
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, […]
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