Not of General Interest

Welcome to Air Literature, Flight 457, departing for nineteenth-century Boston. Our flying time today is estimated at 75 minutes. Flight at...

Over at The Chronicle, Thomas Hart Benton is right about "A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education." He cites lack of preparati...

One thing that online teaching does better than just about anything else is force you to think like a student. Say you're in a face-to-f...

The Wisconsin news (see Dr. Crazy , who can write rationally about it) about the c ontinuing war on education and the middle class would onl...

Tenured Radical has a post up about a book, Clutter-Busting , that encourages getting rid of things, examining your emotional attachments to...

Richard Arum, speaking in "A Lack of Rigor Leaves Students 'Adrift'" at npr.org : According to the study, one possible rea...

Update on the quandary about using MLA format to cite from the Kindle (from The Chronicle ): Ms. Feal says the MLA is considering whether t...

"Online Courses, Still Lacking That Third Dimension" (at the New York Times ) considers the question of online courses with a fa...

Sharon Marshall's "More Face-to-Face, Less Screen-to-Screen" at the Chronicle really resonated with me and with things I...

Historiann has a terrific article about blogging and especially pseudonymous blogging up at Common-place. If you go to read it, as you shou...

"And now for something completely different" really works. If you're going to take a break for lunch, take a break. Don't...

From the New York Times comes this late-breaking news: " To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test." : Taking a test is not j...

First, go read the great post and comments over at Roxie's World about the role of Twittering at the recent MLA. Go ahead; take your ti...

I'm back at work (classes) but still in high spirits because of MLA, so here are some random bullets. The first thing I have to remember...

First, the fabulous: MLA Gods: Putting MLA in Los Angeles, home of palm trees and sunshine, when lots of us are struggling through an epic...

Is it just because I'm going to MLA this year that I'm noticing so many posts about it? Anyway, here are some posts: Moose at Roxie...

Happy New Year to everyone! How about some bullets of twenty-eleven? Yes, we have to make the changeover from "two thousand and x"...

Time to take a break from the internets, ignore some emails, get some things done (though that'll be tough with no library, as Dame Elea...

I'm in the midst of a much-put-off task (work-related but not writing-related) that apparently I will do anything to avoid, including ea...

Reverb10 now has a prompt I can answer, about lessons learned this year. Dr. Crazy has an introspective and interesting post up about this;...