Not of General Interest

From the CHE: an "expert in pedagogy"* talking about blogs : I began to feel overloaded, too. Don't get me wrong. I love blogs...

What kinds of days make you stop at the store for chocolate-covered almonds when you haven't had any candy in the house since Christmas?...

First, let me say this: I'm enjoying the students this semester, and several have proven themselves to be sharp readers of texts. They...

It has snowed here in a major way (I will try to post pictures), and while this is child's play compared to the snow that happens in Sn...

Via Planned Obsolescence : an Inside Higher Ed column by Scott McLemee on the blogging session and Scott Eric Kaufmann's paper . It also...

Blogrolling.com hates us. At least it hates most of us; it seems to like jo(e) and Making Light, but otherwise it hasn't indicated a...

Thomas Hart Benton at the Chronicle of Higher Education on the academic job market: When will there be stern talks about closing down all t...

Scott Eric Kaufman at Acephalous writes about the distinction between "academic blogging" and "academics who blog": The...

Not much to report; it's the first week of classes, and the syllabi for the classes *did* get done, my usual fears to the contrary. For ...

The only way to write is to live in it (the writing). Or maybe more correctly: The only way I can write is to live in it. This wouldn't ...

While everyone else has been writin g terrific post-MLA posts , after getting back late on New Year's Eve I've been trying to ...

My meeting got out a little early, so I was able to catch the last two papers of the "Meet the Bloggers" session. Since others wh...

Yes, there was a nice holiday sandwiched in there somewhere (which I might write about some time), but for about 10,000 people right now it...

Time: December 26th, some time in the twentieth century. Place: A wood-paneled faculty club, somewhere on the eastern seaboard. Three mal...

The Chronicle has an interesting discussion with Henry Jenkins of MIT about using technology in teaching. Extracts (with comments): 1...

After a hard drive crash, even if you're lucky and have backed stuff up, it'll still take a few hours to load back all the software ...

Yesterday, as I was collecting the final exams for one of the classes, ArticulateGuy* came up to the desk. "You wanted us to answer th...

From a New York Times article on Helen Vendler (free registration required): Back in the States, Vendler enrolled in 12 English courses in ...

Ferule and Fescue asks "Do you perorate?" on the last day of class. Well, sort of--but at the wrong time, the beginning of the c...

I've lost my checkbook. (Why do I carry one, anyway, instead of just relying on cards?) I put a "stop payment" on all the rema...