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How Technology Fails My Grand Nannie

Grand Nannie is 92. She wants to be able to speak to her computer to have it do three things...

Dull Statistics, Unless You're One of Them

I probably never mentioned it, but I’m originally from Southern Illinois, a geographically and culturally unique region that’s been marginalized...

Faculty Blogs

At our mid-year commencement a few weeks ago, a faculty member I have known for many years asked me if...

Wisdom and Knowledge

In ninth grade, I had a wonderful, high-energy social studies teacher whose favorite exhortation was "wisdom and knowledge!" He'd usually...

A Manifesto for Vendor Webinars

One of my colleagues jokes that when she retires from her academic tech gig that she is going to start...

Some Heartening News

When wives earn more outside the home, and husbands take on more housework, marriages tend to be happier! Men are...

Another Upside to the Recession

I've mentioned before that one upside to the Great Recession may be that it finally puts to rest the myth...

An iPad for (My) Students?

Jim Groom is dead on - I'm pandering to the iPad. Why stop now? (But seriously….stay tuned for a full...