Aug 26th, 2008
A few days ago, Gary Stager sent out a bunch of tweets (on Twitter, for the uninitiated) about an Edward Tufte seminar he had attended. In responding to my response to one of his tweets, Stager wrote: “any info lit pundit/keynote without a thorough understanding of Tufte’s work is a Ginsu Knife salesman not a [...]
Aug 25th, 2008
Last week, all of the major deadlines for my summer work came and went. Wednesday through Friday was like a blur, but when all the dust settled I realized that I could now focus on the coming academic year. Furthermore, I felt like I was now free to consider the next phase in my professional [...]
Aug 21st, 2008
Haven’t been writing/posting here much. Had to prioritize putting together my tenure portfolio. Having rid my shoulders of that weight (literally and figuratively), I look forward to writing more here. For now, I thought I’d let you know what I wrote about my blog in my tenure narrative. First, I began my section on “scholarship” [...]
Aug 11th, 2008
At the end of his article about an innovative offensive scheme called the A-11 being implemented by one high school football team in California, ESPN.com’s Michael Weinreb writes: “And while I do not know if the A-11 can challenge all our assumptions, or if it is merely a lark, I do know that it accomplishes [...]
Aug 10th, 2008
As the result of a quick Twitter back-and-forth, I told @JeffNugent and @mcglaysia that I would write a blog post about the research linking technology integration and student achievement. A couple of points before I get into it: I have been the lead investigator on many (maybe a dozen or so?) studies aimed at examining [...]