I’m not totally ready for it to be Monday. I think I achieved a good balance this weekend between doing work and having fun, but does this every get easy? Does any academic ever hit an automatic stride in which you’ve figured out how to get enough work done, how to feel like you’ve gotten [...]
Category Archives: Teaching
You Wish Your Bed Was Already Made
09-Jun-08The Medium is the Txt Msg
30-May-08I’m a little slow, so I just now caught the piece in the Inside Higher Ed on the Syracuse Professor who walked out of class when a student in the front row of his lecture blatantly texted from her cell phone. The story is complicated, so just go check it out, and the debate that [...]
Summer School
28-May-08Tonight, taught the first meeting of my summer class, Intro to Soc, Monday and Wednesday nights. I think it went well enough, except for the part where I broke the projector screen, so it wouldn’t retract and was covering up two-thirds of the chalkboard. I also think some of the students have found this blog, [...]
We’re In a Warehouse
16-Apr-08There was some interesting conversation about student evaluations over at Scatterplot a bit ago. One thought I’d add to the conversation — in some cases (I’ve had this experience) what is so upsetting about negative student evaluations (especially public ones, or public sites like Ratemyprofessor), is that they are right. Or at least touch on [...]