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 [...]
Jul 21st, 2008
If you’ve ever taken a college or graduate level course, surely you’ve completed some kind of summative evaluation form at the end of the semester. At Hofstra University, where I worked for 5 years before this past academic year, we called them CTRs (Course and Teacher Ratings). They consisted of a bunch of Likert scale [...]