My parents put me on to this little movie, originally put together by Karl Fisch, the director of technology for a Colorado high school. It’s a simple presentation, providing a few basic facts about what our world is and what it will soon be. It isn’t political. It’s practical. Watch …
Ah … an afternoon grading 101 papers. What could be finer? Well, a lot of things. Most things, actually. On the plus side, the papers are looking decent so far — not great, mostly Cs, but it’s early in the term. There’s time for things to get where they need …
3.2% That’s the percentage of my 101 students (mostly “knobs” — i.e., freshmen) who followed the explicit written and oral instructions on how to turn in their papers to me today. Three. Point. Two. The other 96.8% just lost a full letter grade. Plus, in my second 101 section this …
I don’t know how the cadets feel about it, but I’m excited. And they seem a decent lot — not that one can tell much in the first couple weeks. I’m teaching three official courses this term: two sections of 101 (MWF 10-11 and 11-12) and one of 203 (MWF …
Melissa Smith has had her paper “At Home and Abroad: Éowyn’s Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings” accepted for publication in Mythlore. This paper was written for my course “Tolkien: The Myth and Epic of Middle-Earth” at the University of Rochester in the Spring of …