Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) featured during Seton Hill‘s “Celebration of Scholarship.”

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Journalist flexes in story about Trump Media accountant who has spelled his own name 14 different ways in official documents

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Last weekend I roughed out shapes to represent buildings, in order to provide some sense of scale in a 3D simulation. For the past few days I’ve been texturing. #blender

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The School of Humanities honors me and my colleagues @mikearnzen and Dan Martino as we complete our service to @setonianonline, @eye.contact.shu and the Pastoral Ministry program. (We’re all still here @setonhilluniversity, looking forward to our next adventures on the hill.)

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Shakespeare-themed Math Puzzles

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AI generated image that relates in no meaningful way to the content of the page on which it appears.

This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?

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Bless thee, Carolyn, bless thee! Thou art translated — into a 22 year-old woman.

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Seriously, clouds? Now?

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Eclipse!

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This happened the last time an eclipse was visible in the area. My students left the room, leaving their laptops and purses behind. So here I am guarding it all.

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New infographic to help our graduating English majors make sense of their capstone project.

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Double Entry Journals: Your Scholarly Research Notes for College-level Critical Thinking

What is a double-entry research journal?

Reading with a highlighter in your hand encourages you to agree with or ignore what you read. That’s a very limited way to engage with a text.

By contrast, double-entry notes are a way of making complex connections between different things that you read.

My students often tell me that when they take good double-entry notes, they get a much better paper when the time comes for them to start actually churning out the paragraphs.

Happy Easter 2024

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