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Trying to focus
I'm currently attempting NOT to multi-task, given recent reports that increasing, device-facilitated (arguably, device-driven) high-frequency task-switching not only makes us...
Open to Change: How Open Access Can Work
Last week, when I challenged readers to think about how to make open access happen, Jason Baird Jackson had a...
ELI Online Focus Session on Blended Learning
We signed up today for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2010 Online Fall Focus Session - " Blended Learning: The 21st-Century...
Mothering at Mid-Career: First Day of School
A week ago on Monday afternoon — the time when I usually write this blog post — I was in...
Nieces
The nieces came to visit this weekend. The older niece is three, and the younger one is five months. The...
The Challenge of Value-Added
Quick: name your five best school teachers or college professors, the individuals from primary school through graduate school who made...
Define "In the Discipline"
Who’s qualified to teach college level math? This isn’t limited to math, but I’ll start there because it’s concrete. Similar...
#ASA2010, Multi-tasking the Academic Conference
Atlanta in August – hot, humid, and sticky. It had been seven years since I had attended the American Sociological...