Similar:My View: What will you do with an English degree? PlentyI just found my first reading assignment…AcademiaOutsiders. Four sold out matinees this coming week. — Prime StageFour sold out matinees this coming week….BooksMixed ReceptionThis activity is set in a research group…AcademiaStupid Puns For the WinMy daughter just trounced me in a pun wa…AmusingBless thee, Carolyn,…
Journey with Seton Hill University teachers who publish novels, stories and poetry. Similar:Final grades are due tomorrow. My Fall 2020 is almost over. I survived.Final grades are due tomorrow. My only u…AcademiaDr. Seuss Racism Controversy: A Dr. Seuss Expert Unpacks the Author's History With Racism,…Nobody is banning, cancelling or censori…BooksDaughter doing a thing. Interviewing the…
Source: Out & About: Stage Right holds its annual Heart of the Arts Gala | TribLIVE Similar:Spring 2022 Midterm Grades: SubmittedPersonalThe right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class When it came time for me to make sugge…CultureStudents Learning about First Amendment FreedomsIn an opening lecture for my…
Similar:Looking forward towards the wardroom (center) and the officers' pub, the Gear and Hea…AestheticsMy son showed me #PacificRim.My son showed me #PacificRim. Liked the …CybercultureI've missed doing this! Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d …AestheticsI think this #denoising filter makes my #CGI scene look a bit like a hand-illustrated chil…I think…
Similar:12 Mistakes Nearly Everyone Who Writes About Grammar Mistakes MakesDescriptive grammarians rejoice. Formal…CultureStandardized-test robo-graders flunk“According to professor of theory of kno…AcademiaGoogle Docs "Writing to Learn" ActivityI created a fresh Google Docs page with …AcademiaJames Comey: Trump won’t be removed. But we’ll be fine.Here’s an editorial by someone who feels…CultureThe Women’s Media Center: The Status of…
I swore I would wield my powers only for good. Witness my latest faculty service project. Similar:Unplugging for a Few Hours at Spruce Flats BogVisited a bog created when loggers clear…AestheticsQuoth the ramen, "Eat some more!"PersonalProfessional or college Shakespeare productions in the Pittsburgh area this fall?Does anybody know of any local (within a…AcademiaSpring 2023 Midterm…
Similar:New data on the first three jobs held by graduates of six popular majors“There is an enormous part of the econom…AcademiaTeaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security PrisonGood essay by Mikita Brottman. When I r…CultureVolunteering at our local food bankEthicsSo I’m starting a thing. Wish me luck. #blender3d #medieval #york #mysteryplay #corpuschr…So I’m starting a thing.…
When committee work is fun… making memes to support the English program. Similar:AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. Even the most rebellious poets follow …CultureTricking the eye to see 3D details in geometrically flat surfaces for my #steampunk #blend… AestheticsI Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain…
Similar:Professor teaches class of 300 students from his phone while trapped in elevator with 2 sm…https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel/status/1…AcademiaOops. I’m going to bed now. I’ll fix it tomorrow.Oops. I’m going to bed now. I’ll fix it …AestheticsRingling Bros. circus to close after 146 yearsThe more I learned about elephants, the …BusinessLeonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at…
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:Why Student Athletes Continue to FailWhen student athletes were asked how muc…AcademiaHappy Easter 2020 CultureThe Value of Truth: We are living through an epistemological crisis. In the jargon of academia, the study…AcademiaI had already created the little utility craft on the lower left, but this weekend I expan…PersonalCommunities of Play: The Social Construction of Identity in…
In my defense, I broke that long email down so the recipient (my chair) really only has to read about three bullet points in order to grasp the “Action Item” section… but then I had to *write* all those “just in case this become important later” details, and corral them under increasingly woebegone subheads like…
Similar:A Simple Investigation #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 17) Odo falls for a femme…Rewatching ST:DS9 A duo of knobby-fac…AmusingSpit & Polish ''Pac Gentleman"Spit & Polish: When this game was f…AestheticsI'm just getting around to watching this speech from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Impressive!I really never paid much attention to Sc…AestheticsAnalysis | The ‘Kellyanne Conway on the…
I expect that many of my students will be living the experiences documented in this study of how young people encounter news; nevertheless, it’s difficult to notice your own environment if you can’t compare it to *different* environments. Because I grew up with the three TV network news shows and the copy of The Washington…
Fairy tales are transmitted through language, and the shoots and branches of the Indo-European language tree are well-defined, so the scientists could trace a tale’s history back up the tree—and thus back in time. If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might),…
Anybody seen a post tagged this way? If so, I’d welcome a screenshot. On Friday, Facebook debuted its new flagging system for fake news in America, tagging hoax stories as “disputed” for some users. First announced amid criticism of the company for its role in spreading misinformation during the 2016 election, the new feature uses…