California’s Ed Chau withdrew his proposed legislation that would have criminalized the willing sharing of “a false or deceptive statement designed to influence the vote” on any issue or candidate. (The Electronic Frontier Foundation objected to the bill: “You can’t fight fake news with a bad law.”) The bill would also make it unlawful for…
Similar:7 Tips for Budding Mobile Journalists“Mobile journalism is … not something yo…CybercultureLet's talk about books, old sport.BooksPortrait of a Ten-Year-Old GirlThis thoughtful article demonstrates how…CultureFriday night. What am I doing? #partylikeaprofAcademiaPrivacy and reporting on personal livesInteresting guidelines, phrased as sugge…CyberculturePresenting at #NEMLA session 8.1 Friday. “Hacking English: Examining a multimedia sandbox …Academia
Similar:Why 'Gangnam Style' Is Actually a Study in Mind ControlI’m not sure “thank you” is the right wa…Culture'Jane Austen, Game Theorist' by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Is a Joke When [Chwe] says that Austen was a g…AcademiaTrump and JFK: Masters of New MediaI didn’t use Newsweek’s clickbaity headl…CultureDestiny (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 15) An…
Similar:College Professors Hate Sharing These Mind-Blowing Study Tips (#3 Made Me Cry) Read the syllabus. Read the syllabu…AcademiaA student just booked an appointment to discuss picking up journalism as a second major. E…AcademiaBeautiful News Writing: "Rampaging rooster attacks girl."I don’t want to make light of a little g…AestheticsGranting a Student SuperAdminGoddessOMGWhatHaveIDone Network PrivilegesI should probably not…
Similar:Journalism by the Numbers (a pedagogical play in one scene) #math (Lights up on a college journa…Culture"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster (a reading)https://youtu.be/mppsaL4MEXU https://…BooksFor News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or BustHundreds of thousands of people on Faceb…BusinessJournalists who are doing their job by reporting fairly on a controversial topic often get…Americans…
Similar:Video-Game Violence Is Now a Partisan IssueScholar and essayist Ian Bogost traces t…CultureAmazing birthday cake, created by Jane Eyre herself, Karen Baum. (Thank you @kaboom1250!)PersonalNew York fails Common Core testsJust 23 percent of charter students scor…BusinessPortrait of a Ten-Year-Old GirlThis thoughtful article demonstrates how…CultureWar via TikTok: Russia's new tool for propaganda machine “This is the…
Journey with Seton Hill University teachers who publish novels, stories and poetry. Similar:Addressing Our Biases: Medieval BathingDid medieval people bathe? If you alr…CultureNo girl wins: three ways women unlearn their love of video games – OffworldSeveral times I assigned Brenda Laurel’s…BusinessDon’t worry: It’s not just art!Before a school play, a principal worrie…AestheticsMale Supporting Characters in…
Source: Out & About: Stage Right holds its annual Heart of the Arts Gala | TribLIVE Similar:Chess with my son. As usual, it didn't go well for me.GamesRenata, Carolyn and Alex in a scene from this weekend's Pippin.CultureIn Defense Of Metaphors In Science WritingWe live in an elegant universe. The c…CulturePrime Stage Theatre Makes A…
Similar:More #blender3d #steampunk control panel details. #blender3dartAestheticsDaughter Carolyn plays Cherry in Prime Stage's production of The Outsiders (Mar 6-15)My daughter Carolyn plays Cherry in Prim…BooksEaster Blessings 2021 Current_EventsEnjoying a visit to the Carnegie Science Center with my son. Mars exhibit is immersive an…PersonalMore #steampunk control panel goodness. This section features a nice retro pixelboard text…One…
Similar:ink: Inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrativeGearing up to teach “Digital Storytellin…CybercultureDownloading Great ExpectationsA few weeks ago, I bought an audio recor…BooksEditors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription feesWhen I publish as a scholar, my goal is …AcademiaThe karyotype of Pimelodella cristata (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from Central Amazon ba…Some…
I swore I would wield my powers only for good. Witness my latest faculty service project. Similar:In 2019, I have a college student who annotates readings like this!I asked students in my online “Dystopia …AcademiaWatching Shakespeare With Your KidsMy retired parents and bachelor engineer…Culture100 Word ChallengeIt is a weekly creative writing challeng…CultureFrazetta's "A Princess of…
Similar:Ugh. Unmarked items waiting for me as I start to recover from an illness.PersonalCEO’s brutalist office, for a Zoom-based production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)….AestheticsSold out show today. Carolyn gets tomorrow off, then a final week.PersonalThe Linda Lindas sing "Racist Sexist Boy" — my new favorite punk songDethroning the “I hate you” song that Ki…AwesomeWhy…
When committee work is fun… making memes to support the English program. Similar:The Course of True Fun Never Did Run Smooth: A Midsummer Night's Dwarf Fortress ReflectionI am in rehearsals to play Oberon in a c…CultureHow to Disagree Academically: Using Graham's "Disagreement Hierarchy" to organize a colleg…How to Disagree Academically: Using Grah…AcademiaNext up for the…
Similar:And you thought your last teleconference was rough!PersonalI am slightly ahead of the boy. Rare.PersonalBogus hit-and-run story about Vice President Kamala Harris created by Russian troll farm, …A healthy respect for the free press and…Current_EventsSocial Media Companies Aren’t Liberal or Conservative. They’re capitalist.Facebook cares more about scalability—th…BusinessThe Best of Both Worlds, Part 1 ( #StarTrek…
I’m very happy that several students in my “World Drama” class chose to write about The Merchant of Venice in their latest paper. Almost as many also write about Nine. And several chose to write about both. The assignment asked students to make an intertextual argument — that is, I asked them to write an…
This essay on college students acting helpless (Chronicle of Higher Education) struck a few chords. I put a lot of time into writing my course policies and assignment instructions. The students who want to know how they can earn a 99 instead of a 95 invariably ask really good questions that arise from their close…
Graydon Hoare offers a rousing hymn to the virtues of text. Don’t get me wrong, I like me some illustrations, photos, movies and music. But text wins by a mile. Text is everything. My thoughts on this are quite absolute: text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period. Text is the oldest…
You can just make out Carolyn, Leigh, and me stacked up on the right edge of this picture. Carolyn won “Best Leading Actress in a Non-Musical” for The Miracle Worker, and I also got to present her with “Best Onstage Save” for some quick thinking (and dancing) during the gypsy scene in Man of La…
Five of us went to see PrimeStage’s 1984. Very well done! I wish I could have included this play in my “World Drama” class, or that I had thought to assign the novel in my “Memes and Fake News” class. When it comes to dystopian literature, the boy is better read than I was at…
Similar:Does the phrase "based off of" make you shudder… or shrug?Jerz > Writing >&nb…AcademiaFrom this station on the bridge, the exposition officer can relay whatever random bit of i…https://youtu.be/_E-3E7Q3LSs Get a lo…AestheticsTrack and field fundraiser:photo by Carolyn. FIRST ONE!!!PersonalCameras and Masks: Sustaining Emotional Connections with Your Students in an Age of COVID1…There are some sound pedagogical reasons…AcademiaHow Zuckerberg’s…