I bought far more eBooks on impulse when they were all $9.99. When they break above $10, I have to…
Documentary filmmaker Jason Scott will present GET LAMP, a documentary on word-driven computer games, at Seton Hill University, 7-10pm Tuesday…
I just wrote these examples on a student paper, in an attempt to reinforce a lesson in showing vs. telling.1)…
Like the labor-activist plays of the 1930s, where characters never face any problems that can't be fixed by joining the…
OpenOffice.org is (was?) an amazing, free alternative to Microsoft Office, that was originally developed by Sun Microsystems. If the geeky…
In the past, my students have expressed frustration when they encountered Jim's thick dialect in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, so…
This article does a good job tying together two concepts I've been asking my freshman writing students to consider --…
My class was doing small group work, focusing on a challenging passage in Emerson's Nature, when a student called my…
Emerson burst onto the American intellectual scene by more or less inventing that American intellectual scene. Emerson collected around him a…
Like Caryn Thurman, I came to Cats (the musical) late, after studying and teaching the more "serious" works of T.S.…