Hi, I’m the St Joe’s basement doorstop. Let me start your three-day weekend by wrapping my chain around your ankle, tossing you into the mud, and breaking your phone.

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Anonymous comment cards from student journalists at the end of the second week.

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Full Bloom opens tonight.

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Digital literacy is different from print literacy. How do we balance the trade-off?

My job includes teaching students to read long, complex texts (novels, play scripts, and academic texts.) My job also includes asking students to write researched essays that are longer documents than many of them at first seem comfortable reading. Years after they graduate, students often thank me for what I’ve taught them, and say the…

The other day I did a socialize with some of my Humanities colleagues. (I am proud of myself.)

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Full Bloom opens next weekend. Tickets 724-527-5777.

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Pioneering Harvard Blog Site Wrapping It Up

I still use blogs.setonhill.edu, which I started in 2003. Not for every class, but for most of my discussion-heavy in-person classes. Weblogs@Harvard, as it was then known, was considered pioneering. Facebook didn’t yet exist. Social media was in its infancy. And starting a blog usually required some knowledge of code. Harvard’s blogging platform, now known…

14% of Americans [say that they] have changed their mind about an issue because of something they saw on social media

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West Side Story Maria Montage

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Carolyn as Maria in West Side Story

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FULL BLOOM (Aug 31-Sep 2)

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Student journalist experiences the ‘trickle down’ of hostility toward the press

My own students haven’t described encounters like this, but I have encountered students who enter the classroom with the idea that there is a fairly consistent, uniform, organized entity called “the media” that it’s fashionable to distrust. It’s fair to point to specific news stories that got specific facts wrong or that showed bias, but…