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My Productivity Rules
The very term "productivity system" makes me happy -- I like to think systematically in order to design solutions to problems and I enjoy learning about and creating new systems for doing things.
The Library Vanishes - Again
Thanks to my membership in the Library Society of the World, an anarchic group of librarians who pay no dues and have no rules (my people!), I get useful information (and many moments of laughter and delight) on a regular basis. Two bits of recent news made me think about how quickly things can change in the mostly-digital library.
The NYTimes Highlights the EdTech Opportunity
Who are the media companies dipping into the education business? They include: Discovery (the cable TV company), News Corp, NBCUniversal, and Walt Disney.
Mothering at Mid-Career: Pre-Semester Bullet Points
My first teaching day is a week away and I think my syllabus is ready, amazingly. I e-mailed a link to it to all my students and I believe it was less than an hour before a student e-mailed me back to ask about a date confusion--alas, there was a typo in what I sent out. It's fixed now, but it's not exactly how I intended to appear to my students. Ah, well, perhaps it's just as well that they get used to the idea that I am not, in fact, always going to be right. (Far from it.)
Mothering at Mid-Career: Pre-Semester Bullet Points
· My first teaching day is a week away and I think my syllabus is ready, amazingly. I e-mailed a...
Modes of Higher Ed Capacity Building for South Korea's South Coast Sun Belt
What to do when development strategies for a city-region change, but there is limited higher education capacity in said region? This issue emerged this summer when, following a work-related visit to Beijing in late July, I spent four fascinating days in Yeosu, a city of approximately 300,000 located near the southeast tip of South Korea.
Further Updates From #ASA2012: Men's Friendships, NCLB, and Outputs
One of the great things about the ASA Annual meetings is the Film/Video Screenings. While I missed the one showing of Jessica Valenti’s The Purity Myth, I did get to catch Erik Santiago’s Five Friends, which was very moving. The film focuses on male friendships and centers on a 65-year old man named Hank. (While watching the film, I couldn’t help but think of my husband and 7-year old son who were participating in a Father/Son weekend at a boy’s camp on Squam Lake in NH (aka the On Golden Pond lake)).