A rather sobering article (subscription required) in the Chronicle’s The Academic Life provides portraits of the financial realities of the profession. A selection: When Catherine A. Milton moved back to her parents’ home to finish her dissertation, she didn’t imagine that she would stay for seven years. While living at their Connecticut home, she…
Students in my Technologies and the Future of Writing module of Introduction to Writing Arts are designing their own information ecologies. These ecologies are comprised of: their own spaces on the Rowan University servers a collaborative blog hosted by WordPress a netvibes.com ecosystem a social bookmarking site (delicious or diigo) The main question they…
Today, as part of International Day of Peace activities, Rowan University’s College of Fine Arts hosted an exhibition of Pinwheels for Peace (1 of 4 such exhibitions in Glassboro, NJ) on the lawn between Science and Westby Halls. This non-political organization aims to provide an alternative to the violent images that bombard children via…
Several weeks ago I downloaded a screen and video capture tool called Jing after reading about it on Jeff VanDrimmelen’s Educause blog. I thought I would use it to create instructional videos for my students who were having trouble following the school’s online instructions for connecting to the school servers from home. This weekend…