15.08.09
The book group had been meeting every other Tuesday for several weeks, and many good ideas about the campus came up for discussion along the way. But I sat up and took note when a colleague said this: Students love it when faculty 'own up' to not knowing something. (R. duC) I connected this sentence immediately to another thought I had been carrying around for a few weeks, something spoken by a teacher to a group of students: I don't know how you will...
15.08.09
"A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world," says Matthew B.Crawford in his essay on "The Case for Working With Your Hands." Students and faculty might enjoy his essay for the strong writing as well as for the clues he gives about why academic work...
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15.08.09
The epigraph from a new book on Shakespeare by Clinton Heylin: The greatest advantage of Shakespearean studies seems to be that questions may be asked over and over again, and that almost nobody pays attention to the answers — unless he borrows them for his own use in an article or a book. — HYDER E. ROLLINS, 1944
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12.01.09
Now I find I'm approaching Twitter like a formalist poet who likes to have the imagination provoked by the restrictions of a given form. You only get 17 syllables, or the next line must rhyme, or there must be a recognizable rhythm, etc. As you face the restriction, you see novel solutions, things you wouldn't have said, or said that way, otherwise. Two tries: Quoted: "People congratulated me when my son was born, but I worried even then. He will be drafted in 8 years....
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15.08.09
One way to make clear the power of social media is to identify the thing that is broken without it. Clay Shirky, I'm guessing, might speak about creating the opportunity to coordinate a group that can't easily act in concert, or to call to the microphone a group that usually can't speak on its own behalf. I noticed in a 5/11 letter to the NY Times from Celina Su a classic circumstance where a group...
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