Dennis G. Jerz
For the Uniform #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 13) Sisko pursues former Federation officer Eddington
Rewatching ST:DS9 In a cave (again with the caves) Sisko, in civilian clothes, seeks an informer, but is instead met…
Midterm Grades Spring 2025: Posted!
I planned ahead pretty well this term. I like the pace in all my classes.
The Dog and the Oyster (Aesop Fable)
I always enjoy my visits to the studio. This recording was a quick one!
MLA Citations: Your attention to detail establishes your credibility
After marking a set of bibliography exercises, I created this graphic to focus on the kinds of citation errors I…
The Begotten #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 12) Kira and Odo face surrogacy
Rewatching ST:DS9 Odo walks stiffly into the infirmary, where Bashir scolds him for not taking better care of his recently-acquired…
More than a million people die on roads every year. Meet the man determined to prevent them
Imagine a society that engineers its highways so that ordinary people who make mistakes, and even people who intentionally break…
Stapler jam during a midterm exam.
My years of watching MacGyver definitely paid off. (Not that my GenZ students got the reference.) I'm doing a lot…
The Tyranny of Now (Appreciation of Harold Innis)
As a grad student at the University of Toronto, I picked up a bit about Marshall McLuhan here, a bit…
The Darkness and the Light #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 11) A serial killer targets Kira’s former resistance colleagues
Rewatching ST:DS9 In a cave (again with the caves), a pleasant-looking Bajoran monk welcomes guests to a "days of atonement"…
Is AI making us less intelligent?
This morning, after students submitted a homework assignment (a 200-word evidence-based argument paragraph), I asked them to annotate a printout…
The press lobby is going feral—ignore it
Given that they need to write multiple stories a day, while also appearing on podcasts and 24-hour news channels, lobby…
Selling Point (Audio Drama)
I had fun recording this in the studio -- with live foley artists! https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xc-_o_qr2vE&si=ozF_Zxd4wAWR2W6w
Letter to the editor: Setting record straight on Seton Hill newspaper
Here's my letter responding to an recent article about the future of the student newspaper I advised for over two…
Don’t Be a Sucker (antifascist film from 1945)
https://youtu.be/CXm3WxU--fM?si=E1BHac8JgF83G2FL Full version