[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, …
Dear Sharp, Many years ago when I was gearing up for high school (so more years ago than I like to think about), my parents bought me a graphing calculator. Birthday or Christmas, I think. I can’t really remember. Almost everybody back then had a TI-85, as I recall. A …
Some months ago, I published my first short fiction collection, Angels Among Other Things, as an Amazon Kindle e-book. I made no announcement of it at the time, primarily because I wanted to work the kinks out of the e-book. I have quite a bit of experience in digital publishing, …
I have no idea how I missed this, but Loreena McKennitt — whose music I fell in love with in college — gave a concert at the Alhambra a few years ago. Her music is magical, and so is that place. Indeed, when I visited it for the first time …
As many of my students are aware, I have a rather strange (for a medievalist) side interest in quantum mechanics. I dig me some Schrodinger’s Cat: (If you want a shorter and more amusing version, check out this scene from Big Bang Theory.) Anyhow, I bring this up to illustrate …