Terry Teachout‘s WSJ article about the upcoming Sony Reader and what this might mean to reading and publishing renews my enthusiasm about having an ebook reader that’s separate from my computer. For one thing, having most everything I need with me at all times would be great. I’ve got a zillion academic books that I’d [...]
It’s not every day UVM gets mentioned in a Canadian MP’s blog!
I just finished a posting on my English 005 blog about an entry I came across on the blog of James Moore, one of the Members of Parliament we met with in October on our class trip to Ottawa. Moore was one of four MPs who took over an hour to meet with us and [...]
Teaching Carnival V
Teaching Carnival V is now online here. These regular Teaching Carnivals are an excellent resource and a great example of how blogging can help us to have meaningful conversations about what we do with people outside of our own institutions. Technorati Tags: Academia
Let’s hope Canadians think twice on 1/23
I’m just about to send in my mail-in ballot for Canada’s upcoming federal election, hoping that it will arrive in time. Not that my vote usually makes a difference in Conservative Alberta, the domain of King Ralph for the last 14 years (!). Nevertheless, the latest polls suggesting that Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party [...]
La Bibliothèque nationale du Québec soon to surpass the 2 million visitor mark
After opening a mere five months ago, Québec’s amazing new Bibliothèque nationale will soon have had more than two million visitors. I’ve been eager to go for some time, but hopefully should have some more time to get up there this spring to explore. Being so close to Montréal is one of the many great [...]
A few thoughts on teaching online and the future of hybrid courses
Earlier today, I dropped by the office of a colleague and was telling her how wonderfully the students in my current online class on Margaret Atwood are performing. Each student, and many of them are not English majors, is posting extensively on a daily basis and the level of the analysis that each of them [...]
“Internationalizing” UVM
I just came back from an excellent workshop where many of us at UVM working in the areas of International Studies and other fields discussed the internationalization of UVM. Our focus was on how we could make UVM more connected to the rest of the world and the world more connected to UVM. What we [...]
Blogging takes off at UVM
What a nice surprise today to walk into a packed blogging workshop here at UVM’s Center for Teaching and Learning. It wasn’t that long ago that few people other than Steve Cavrak had done anything at all with blogging. Now, we have faculty, students, and staff creating blogs and looking at ways to use them [...]
The Calamari Wrestler
I have a million things ready to blog about, but I just had to put this up first. My pal and guru of technology and weirdness Steve Cavrak sent me this link to The Calamari Wrestler. I don’t know what I liked best, the guy in the calamari suit or the review of the movie [...]