Over the last few days, I’ve been involved with the final workshop in a consortium in which I’ve been a participant. My university, along with twenty…
Early last fall, I wrote about my plans to add a fairly elaborate blogging component to my upper-level Latin American history course. This semester-long blogging…
THIS JUST IN: Distracted students are distracted! Also: sometimes there are things that distract students! And we all know what to do with things that…
At the beginning of the summer, as I settled into planning for this fall, I made the decision to jettison the traditional research paper assignment–which…
One of the fascinating things about language and popular discourse in the age of the internet is how quickly the cycle of expansion-to-repulsion occurs. It…
InsideHigherEd.com’s John Warner had an interesting and thoughtful blog post today, writing about his struggle “to figure out what to do about cell phones and…