With or without edtech.
Earlier today, my Twitter friend Jon Becker @ed me a link to an EdSurge essay about edtech and refrigerators, suggesting that I was "the only person qualified to comment on…
Two-fer Tuesday.
TFW two pieces you had a hand in get published one the same day.
My excuse for not blogging.
So this has happened. It may take a little while to make it from the publisher in the UK to booksellers around the world, but I still thought I'd take…
Coming in September.
The blurb: "While much has been written about the doors that technology can open for students, less has been said about its impact on teachers and professors. Although technology undoubtedly…
Both sides now.
Way back during the "Year of the MOOC" my friend Jonathan Poritz in our math department wanted me to turn the predecessor of this blog into a book. "No way,"…
Career highlight.
My favorite museum in America interviewed me about refrigerators and refrigeration.
“You got so much to do and only so many hours in a day.”
From start to finish (minus another book in the middle) it took thirteen years to get Refrigeration Nation into print. The problem was deciding the level of focus that I…
Your mid-summer refrigeration history update.
Why haven't I been blogging more? Writing. Refrigerator is now out of my hands and is scheduled to appear in September. I wrote that last summer as something of a…
Bullet points. All I got is bullet points.
I just came back from two weeks on the road, and am more than a little bushed. However, there are a few things I want to share here: * If…
Ice harvesting, 1869.
One of the advantages of writing a book about something you already know something about is that you often know exactly what you're looking for when you surf the Internet.…
