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…
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Like Caryn Thurman, I came to Cats (the musical) late, after studying and teaching the more "serious" works of T.S.…
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There's already plenty of redirect overhead in places where you don't really think about it. For example:Every time you click…
Faculty members at Seton Hill University, which gave iPads to all full-time students, are working with the developers of an…
Part of the take-home message, that applies equally to my own children and the college students I'm teaching right now.…