Or rather, in a brief exchange with
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May any meetings you have to get ready for the upcoming semester be interesting, productive, and short ( Read more... )

I have been reading some discussions lately about the idea of providing trigger warnings for material in a given college course, generally somewhere that the student would see said warnings before selecting the course. (Note: I am not linking to any stories because I really want to talk about the general idea, not the specific implementations.) ( Read more... )

Apropos of maaaaany discussions of teachers lately, in obvious contexts: I hate most movies about teachers. I particularly hate movies about "one teacher who makes a difference." I have mentioned this before, but seldom spelled out why. Here it is.

Three Reasons I Hate "One Teacher Who Made A Difference"1. These movies, in focusing on a single ( Read more... )

Every so often, I give extra credit "quizzes" in my classes that are really just glorified excuses for giving people a few points on days when about half the class fails to show up. These usually take the form of a modified Trivial Pursuit-ish question set where I ask one question from pop culture, one from history, one from science, etc. My ( Read more... )

Starting in fall, I will be the Director of Composition at the No Longer Really New School.

Superhero papers for everyone.

(Except not.)