Gophers.
I got exciting news yesterday: I'm becoming a computer science professor! I'm alright. Nobody worry 'bout me. It's just for three days. You see, my friend JP is teaching a…
Repeat after me: “You are an expert in your own teaching!”
via GIPHY So I have an announcement: Next year I will be the faculty fellow at CSU-Pueblo's Center for Teaching and Learning. First you go for the free food. Next…
Career highlight.
My favorite museum in America interviewed me about refrigerators and refrigeration.
What if the adventure chooses you?
I was reading those e-Literate guys, Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill, write about personalized learning at edSurge the other day. Oddly enough, I was writing my own little account of…
My favorite part is the Edgar Allen Poe joke.
Maybe the Atlantic will let me write about education issues for them some day, but until then there's this essay about my love for refrigerator magnets (featuring an appearance by…
“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…
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…
Academic survival literature.
My version of academic survival literature is now up over at Vitae. Warning: It's kind of depressing, but then again so is academia these days.
Wrapped up in books.
Posting here has obviously been sparse lately. While this space is hardly going dark [Imagine the thought of me ever shutting up!], I can now tell you why the frequency…
We’re History.
We're History is basically the successor site to the dearly departed blog of the Historical Society. However, Heather Cox Richardson (who is not the only mastermind of this thing, but…
