Here is a video from Richard E. Miller, the Chair of the Department of English at Rutgers, explaining his thinking about the shift to a new vision of the humanities and how that vision will be enacted through physical space at the university. It certainly suggests some of the changes that we will have to [...]
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Here are some notes and reactions to the “Growing Up Online” special as it goes… Some initial introductions, showing students as deceptive about online activity and generally showing parents as luddites Scenes from schools, teachers claiming that they need to be “entertainers” and that it is difficult for students to focus and can not be [...]
My friend Jim sent this along to me and I thought that it might be of interest to many of you, especially those of you who are parents. I am going to try to watch it and would be interested in hearing your thoughts and reactions to it. FRONTLINE: coming soon: growing up online | [...]
This promises to be an interesting new twist on the scholarship of teaching. I’ll be watching: TCRecord: Article Children and Puppets and Rats, Oh My TCR Welcomes After Ed TV by Gary Natriello ? January 18, 2008 A new short-form web video channel joins the TCR home page For 2008 the Teachers College Record is [...]
Crazy couple of weeks here with classes starting. So, here is a post that is not really a post from me, but from the folks at the Economist. Enjoy the next round of debates! I saw all of your earlier posts about The Economist Debate Series and wanted to thank everyone for posting about our [...]
Things are underway for the semester — I am looking forward to teaching ENG 315 again, and I made this quick video to welcome students to the class. My daughter helped a bit, too. Enjoy! PS — If anyone can help me figure out why I can’t embed YouTube videos in WordPress, that would be [...]
Well, it is the night before classes start, and I still have that little flutter in my tummy — I had a mentor once who told me that was a good sign, because the semester you stop getting butterflies is the semester you should quit teaching. So, I either believe him, or he jinxed me. [...]
Recently, I was alerted to a new comic-making tool: Make Belief Comix. Here is a sample of what you can do: And here is a more thorough explanation from the creator of the site, Bill Zimmerman, who emailed me the following: Dear reader, I want to share with you news of my newest educational project [...]
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