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An Experiment in Online Presentations
Creativity, imparted by Euterpe(Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres) This past semester I assisted a professor with using Blogs@Baruch (our local installation...
View ArticleOn the “flipped” classroom
In traditional learning environments the first exposure to knowledge occurs via in-class lectures. The instructor decides what content should be conveyed to students. After class, students assimilate...
View ArticleIt Never Rains but It Pours
A senior colleague told me yesterday that in the old days PhD candidates kept a hard copy of their thesis in the freezer – in the hope that it would survive should their house burn down. These days...
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How Do They Use This Thing?
Over the last few months, I have been a developing a plugin for Blogs@Baruch, Baruch College’s massive WordPress Multi-User installation. Responsibly, B@B fulfills a contemporary need that educational...
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On Haunting and Inhabiting
The Docks, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1921), NYPL Digital Collections The past is present on the internet. Specters of the past, particularly those that are marginalized or ignored in traditional...
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TLHUB: It’s Better When It’s Messy
If the world is becoming more and more dependent on technology it is imperative that we (read: intellectuals, scholars, academics, literary peoples, translators) create our own place in it; a place not...
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Once Upon a Time: Web-based Timelines in the Classroom
Last week, Dana Milstien and I led a faculty-development roundtable on the online timeline design app Tiki-Toki. The app has become popular in academia over the past year or two because it provides a...
View ArticlePower Pointers
Power Point slides are omnipresent in today’s college classroom. Most textbooks in my field – I have been teaching introductory economics and finance – come with a set of PowerPoint slides prepared by...
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What I learned in my international archival research
This break, I spent time in Moscow, conducting dissertation research. This archival trip has been useful, not only for my dissertation research, but in a way I never expected: helping my pedagogy...
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On gravitating and levitating (part one)
I’ll begin with a passage from James Joyce’s “The Dead” to illustrate reading as an embodied experience in movement: “Her voice strong and clear in tone attacked with great spirit that runs which...
View ArticleThere’s a NAP for that….
I have always enjoyed my routine of reading in bed before I got to sleep. When I was a teenager, I often would get so engrossed in the book I was reading, I would sometimes read for hours into the...
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Please Open (Your) Textbooks…
Seems that at the beginning of every semester, I see another blog post or news story about the skyrocketing prices of textbooks and how renting or subscription textbooks are the answer. There have even...
View ArticleThe Soundtrack to Productivity
Stop and Listen. What do you hear? Music coming through your earphones? The chatter of a coffee shop? The car horn-punctuated midtown din, filtered through library windows? The hum of your computer in...
View ArticleAn Amateur’s Guide to Creating Audio Projects in Audacity (captured by...
Hello, my name is Josh and I’m an addict of public radio. I get my morning fix from the BBC. When I ride the subway, I keep my dosage steady with podcasts from the CBC. Over lunch and in the evenings,...
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The Netflix “Canon”: Taste as Absence of “Taste”
Sight and Sound’s 2002 “Greatest Films Poll” was voted on by the “world’s leading film critics.” See http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/ Here are the results: Citizen Kane Vertigo...
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Composition Across the Curriculum
Due to our many discussions about Communication Across the Curriculum and multimodal composing at the Schwartz Institute, I became interested in the idea of Composition Across the Curriculum. In...
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