Simple Joys of 2012
About this time last year, I was celebrating the newfound benefits of having a treadmill at home and I looked …
Yearly Archives: 2012
How is it going?
Now playing on my office headphones: Solsbury Hill by Erasure This morning Mark and I walked under a sky of …
Education, Goals, and Personal Trainers
A montage of conversations and topics around the changing role of higher education have been going through my mind over …
Our Next Great Adventure
Three weeks from now we will be packing up the car, locking the door on our Sioux City apartment for …
Brainstorming a workshop for online teaching
Yesterday on twitter George Veletsianos asked if anyone was looking into online courses, and I mentioned that I’d been collecting …
Tips for teaching with Wikipedia
Over the last couple weeks, students in our WRTG 315 class have been working on an assignment that required each …
Quiet Renaissance Power
For the past month I’ve been reading two books that were very different but struck similar chords for me. The …
Resolutions Follow-up
At the beginning of the year, I made a couple one-month resolutions to be healthier. I’ve been meaning to give …
Twitter in Classrooms – a round up
This semester (Spring 2012) I’m involved with a class called Writing for the Web. This class is full of experiments …
One Month Resolutions, or Getting Fit at Home
Six years ago, after way too many Thanksgiving turkeys in one holiday weekend (from mutliple holiday meals with different friends), …
