When it happens it’s a quiet thing. I didn’t expect it to come with trumpets or fanfare, of course — indeed I can’t say that I’d ever thought about what to expect at all — but now that it’s here I find myself thinking about the how even as I …
Recently, someone suggested that I write posts here more often. This was without doubt an incredibly kind thing to say — a writer first and foremost, after all, wants to hear that his or her work has been read — but it was also an unpleasant reminder of how busy …
[The latest issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine features the article “GGrading: Digital Grading Made Free and Easy with Google Apps,” an overview of the ways in which I am using Google Apps to grade student papers. That essay is a relatively limited look at the digitization of my teaching life, …
My schedule for the Spring semester is reportedly settled into place. I’ll be teaching English 102 (our introduction to literature course), but more interestingly I’ll be teaching my 200-level Tolkien course and an Honors seminar on Norse literature. Vikings and Elves, kids! Vikings and Elves!
Student evaluations are in for Spring 2011, and I read them while sitting in a waiting room yesterday. As I suspected, the graduate student evaluations were a mixed bag. There was a palpable anger in the air on the week of evaluations — something many of us teaching graduate classes …