Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read

7 years ago

It was pleasurable to encounter a familiar reference to Plato's Phaedrus (which I just assigned in my Media & Culture…

On the Importance of Nonverbal Feedback in the Classroom [an Anecdote]

7 years ago

I don't generally like teaching with slide decks, but students are used to them. I use a typeface that makes…

How Star Wars was saved in the edit

7 years ago

I learned a lot while watching this video. I didn't realize how much of this movie was driven by off-screen…

The Cover Letter That Led to Awesome Interviews

7 years ago

When I do a career planning unit, I am often amused by the students who list "design skills" or "very…

Research Poetry (communicating research results and expressing their significance through poetry)

7 years ago

For an article on communicating research findings in poetic verse rather than academic prose, an article in Qualitative Inquiry cites…

Fie upon your multi-page, ad-stuffed crapfest of shame. (Don’t click!)

7 years ago

What I wrote is not actually a list, just a narrative rant against clickbait listicles.

Updated a post about Sarah Rush — the “launch when ready” crew member from 1979 Battlestar Galactica

7 years ago

I recently noticed that a blog post I created in 2003 has been getting a spike in traffic. Today my…

Apology of Socrates, By Plato

7 years ago

Aristotle classified Plato's work, representing Socrates's defense against charges that he corrupted the youth of Athens, as a fiction. But…

Is your child texting about recursive acronym palindromes?

7 years ago

Is your child texting about recursive acronym palindromes? lol = linguists overinterpret lol gtg = gtg tokenizes gatekeeping mcm =…