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Learning in the Commons
Tom Deans and Tom Roby, directors of a university's centers to help students with writing and mathematics, respectively, consider the styles, goals and metaphors of their related efforts.
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Speaking
Last week I had a chance to speak with some local employers who occasionally hire our graduates. They were gracious...
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Twitter and the learning technology stream
Twitter is changing how I keep up with the educational technology world. I'm moving from relying on an RSS reader...
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Strike at Illinois
If you’re reading this Monday morning, the strike at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has begun, and I’m out taking...
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Career Coach: More on Gender Balance
The undergraduate institution I attended went co-ed the year I matriculated. It had previously been an all-women’s college, the sister...
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Summer is a'goin out
It's getting cold at night around Backboro. The stock tanks have a quarter inch of hard ice on them in...
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Reality testing
I wasn't listening to music on the way to Greenback this morning, but I should have been. I should have...
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They Don't Read!
Over the years I’ve often taught Edward Bellamy’s classic 19th century utopian novel Looking Backward. It’s a blistering critique of...