As I celebrate the end of my note preps for the fall, I am finally able to start constructing my presentations. I love constructing the actual lectures. All of my really hard work is done and now I get to
FollowIt seems depressing but this long August weekend is not for fun…it is the last push before our printing deadlines for all our course pack notes. I am currently creating notes for 18 lectures for one of our large third
Although I’ve been faculty for a few years, grantsmanship has been lower on the priority list. I don’t have a typical 40% teaching 40% research 20% service workload. I am atypical and am expected to spend 90% of my
I had a sad conversation a few days ago while away on a visit back to my home town. The conversation was with a late 20s woman who I found out was my third cousin, let’s call her Mary (I’ve
I love my tablet and my smart phone. I knew the iPad was going to revolutionize my teaching and I spend a lot of time looking for the best apps to make doing my job better. The one problem was
Yes, I am going to join in on the MOOC (massively open online courses) discussion and add my personal opinion. From just the last few days of course registration, I have had a number of emails that sound like this….