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Breeze & Transparency online

I am engaged in a three-week online seminar with other online teachers at Quinnipiac, talking about teaching and learning online. Since this week I we are talking about transparency, I figured I should put my contribution up here on my blog as well. So, here is the short (11 minute) presentation in Breeze–it opens in […]
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Lecture notes & copyright

I have an admission to make. When I was an undergraduate, I bought a lot of notes. And I did far better in the courses in which I did. The process was easy. Show up to class the first week to get the syllabus. See if the university library or any other local libraries had […]
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Are “strange” courses best?

Via Tomorrow’s Professor I find this list of the top 25 strangest university courses. First, an observation: few of these strike me as all that strange. Perhaps it is because I am in a field–communication–that is often associated with courses about popular culture that might otherwise be considered trivial (courses in soap opera and games […]
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Hello, world

Allen, who took the snapshot to the right, emailed and reminded me of this short piece I wrote for our alumni magazine (Quinnipiac Magazine) last fall. Here it is: Hello World! Technology opening classroom doors University campuses often reflect the character of their community, and that feels especially true here in the shadow of the […]
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