Bardiac

If you're on EffBee, you've seen the recent meme going around again, about how you need to copy and paste a whole post in order to s...

I took on being chair of a special program curriculum committee.  The special program is interdisciplinary, but doesn't have department ...

I'm teaching a play I've taught many, many times in my Shakespeare and Ecocriticism course, and I've been rereading with an eye ...

Here at NWU, the administrative folks have apparently just discovered that student suicide is a thing. Since I've been here, we've...

When I first studied in a teaching composition program, the faculty emphasized that we needed to create assignments that we would actually l...

In my department, we can often manage to schedule our teaching for four days a week, which gives us one "non-teaching" day to grad...

I've watched the episodes of Vicious up on a local PBS video site (because I never remember to watch during the televising time), and I...

Many blog posts ago, there was a fine blogger who blogged about academic stuffs, and then, as happens, slowly stopped blogging.  But before ...

The other day, a lot of faculty folks around here got a questionnaire from a professor at a pretty fancy university in a nearby state.  The ...

Delagar wrote a really good story .  You should read it!

I ran across an interesting article (Thanks to Mike the Mad Biologist's link list) by Sherman Alexie.  I think it struck me especially ...

I have a habit of giving low stakes assignments in many of my courses, assignments where, for example, students write 10 journals over the c...

We're into the second week of classes now.  My ecocriticism/Shakespeare class was rough today because most of the students didn't ha...

I think I got five last night, which isn't bad. A couple of them wanted to check how to cite something for an assignment due today.  Y...

Last night, I was pretty overwhelmed, and this morning, when I came in, I didn't even bother to write a list because I felt like I had s...

I'm teaching my first year writing course in cooperation with a first year sciency course, but it's a science I know almost nothing ...

As I wrote about here and then here , I'm teaching an Intro to Lit course this semester using all writers who are people of color.  I...

I'm working on my syllabi and calendars for my courses, all three of which are at least somewhat new this semester. I'm teaching I...

It feels like a strange new world here.  I was in three meetings today, all of which had to do with some aspect of self-governance.  In two ...

We've had a major cut to our budget this year; it's no secret, and we all saw it coming, though it's probably worse than most pe...