thinking about education
Once an English major, always an English major. During a recent trip to Denver, I bought Charles Beauclerk’s book about the authorship of the Shakespeare plays. Then, browsing in the Tattered Cover Bookstore along the 16th Street Mall, I found Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro in which the author makes the [...]
NOTE: This is a cross post from my mostly about reading blog In One Place. But the ideas about science are important for educators as well.
There are moments when reading and real life come together. Not to be too dramatic: but now is one of those times. As oil spews into the [...]
One of the themes that came out of last week’s online course discussion about Web 2.0 was a sense that if you had an active online life, you didn’t have such an active offline life. Some students indicated that they didn’t spend much time online as they did other things and had other hobbies. [...]
A gloomy day here. The rain brought down the leaves and it is starting to look like winter. The dogs are sprawled around me, snoozing, and I can’t muster the energy for a thoughtful blog post. But, I do have a few sites to share on several different topics so here’s the random Friday round [...]
It seems I’ve been reading a lot about reading lately. A recent article in the Chronicle has prompted several bloggers to consider what reading means in the 21st century. Will Richardson reflected on his own reading practices and what educators should be doing to foster online literacy. Sean Sharp thought about what online [...]
Readers of this blog are aware of my interest in promoting open education resources. Last year, I was a formal member of a Joint Commission on Technology and Science subcommittee related to this topic. This year, there are no formal members besides the legislators, but the public is encouraged to attend. The meeting yesterday had [...]
Just read this essay from Luc Sante in The Wall Street Journal about his book collection. If you read my blog, you’ll understand why it resonated with me. Here’s a taste:
Many books are screwy, a great many are dull, some are irredeemable, and there are way too many of them, probably, in the [...]
Indexed, Jessica Hagy’s blog, is perfect for visual learners like me. Each day, she creates a chart or graph on a different topic. Have fun exploring. And, if you get really hooked, her book has just been published, too.
If you know me at all, you know that one of my favorite websites is LibraryThing. So, this morning when I logged in, I was happy to see a PMOG mission devoted to books. In case you didn’t read the last post, PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game and one of its main features [...]
I think I may be one of the book-loving technophiles that John Hendron wrote about in this post. In fact, I spent most of yesterday morning culling and organizing my books. There are two boxes of hard backs to go to the library and two boxes of paperbacks to go to my exchange [...]