Not of General Interest

Over at The Chronicle, The Shadow Scholar has been getting more than his 15 minutes of fame for cheerfully admitting that he makes a good l...

Warm pumpkin custard (left over from the pies and baked in a dish) for dessert last night with excellent sharp cheese. Pumpkin custard with ...

The other day over at University Diaries, Margaret Soltan said (or linked to someone who said) that laptops were becoming more scarce in cla...

Right now the secondary narrative of my life is this St. George and the Dragon relationship I'm having with the online instruction peopl...

Michael Berube, over at Crooked Timber, dismantles the idea that the humanities have been declining as a major: http://crookedtimber.org/201...

Here's a question: if the monograph is in trouble, dying, hard to publish, etc., then why does seemingly every presenter at a conference...

Still here--just busy--will post later.

Over at T he Chronicle, there's a special section on Online Learning. Some of the writers are all about "education should be free!...

There's a lot of talk about salaries in the profession around the blogosphere right now. Tenured Radical has some posts about it. Dr. ...

Over at Profhacker, Nels Highberg has an interesting post about being what he calls "reliably unreliable" when answering email. I...

At the New York Times, Lisa Forderaro expresses surprise that the students at Hamilton College prefer print textbooks to the digital kind...

The decision of the BitchPhD bloggers and BitchPhD herself to close up shop has a number of current bloggers like Roxie's World and Dr....

As I've done more reading on the iPad, I've wondered what it might be like to use it in a literature classroom. I'm inspired par...

Although we hear that the recession is over for the bankers and those on Wall Street (or did I repeat myself?), most universities are going ...

How much do you remember about a book (criticism, not fiction) a few years after you've read it? After you've skimmed it? Do you rem...

If a reference can't be cited using MLA (or Chicago), does it really exist? For example, say you have a Kindle or an iPad. I've bee...

This isn't as much a post as a link roundup of posts explaining why the educated middle class is to blame for--well, just about everythi...

From this month's Esquire, Philip Roth on writing (p. 186 ) : Has the writing gotten any easier? That's hard to answer. There are d...

Approximate number of words written today: about 3,000. Number of words that had anything to do with my own writing: 0. Number of words in l...

The New York Times Magazine has an article about middle-school students using the Livescribe pen (used to be Pulse Pen) in class. Short vers...