Show & Tell
July 17, 2020
Last weekend, I took an online seminar (via The Shipman Agency) led by Garth Greenwell, one of my favorite contemporary American writers, titled “Some Recent
Menu
Occasional Writings
For older writings, see the archive of my blog The Mumpsimus (2003-2023)
This page also includes posts originally published at my academic and pedagogy-focused blog, Finite Eyes (2018-2024)
Subscribe to Posts via Email
Archives
Habits of Mind, Habits of Mine
July 15, 2020
I’m participating in Plymouth State University’s Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC), and this post is a response to the following prompt: “Write (and share if
The Value of Uselessness
May 28, 2020
I’m participating in Plymouth State University’s Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC), and this post is a reflection on one of the first activities of the
Supporting Openness Should Not Mean Supporting Piracy
March 29, 2020
The Internet Archive has decided to respond to the corona virus crisis by creating what they call the National Emergency Library, and they have gained
When Students Have Power by Ira Shor
February 10, 2020
Published almost 25 years ago, Ira Shor’s When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy is a book full of practical ideas that
MLA 2020: “(Against) The Syllabus as an Instrument of Cruelty”
January 14, 2020
At this year’s MLA Convention, I was a member of a great panel discussing “The State of the Syllabus”. It was tremendously well attended, especially
Looking Back on Fall 2019
January 13, 2020
I did not intend to abandon this site for months, but the past term was a busy one, and then the holiday break got even
Five Values
August 30, 2019
I showed up to work one morning and Robin had put a print-out of a slide from my Northeast OER Summit presentation on the front
Openings
August 29, 2019
Recently, I’ve been working with some faculty in thinking about Open Pedagogy, Open Education, and syllabi. There have been great, productive conversations, and lots of
Tags
academia
academic
birthdays
books
Cheney publications
community
CPLC
crisis
cruelty
economics
emotion
film
higher ed
horror
ideas
interdisciplinary
Le Guin
Lethe Press
lists
magic
memoir
modernism
music
occult
OERs
open
Open Access
open education
pedagogy
philosophy
poetry
politics
publishing
queer
reading
short stories
syllabi
Sylvia Townsend Warner
teaching
technology
The Mumpsimus
values
Woolf
writers
writing
Unless otherwise noted, all content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
