English Education Professor

Flip the Media

Chronicle Careers uses the mind control metaphor to understand why graduate students stick.

Nevertheless, understanding the varied social experiences of graduate school (student culture as well as formal instruction), as a kind of cult helps to explain why so many people cannot be dissuaded from staying in school — or working, year after year, as underpaid adjuncts — when it is manifestly against their interests to do so, when they sincerely want to get out the academy but feel impeded by irrational fears.

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David Allen talks about the new book that I’m reading, Making It All Work from the Philadelphia Free Library.

Some excerpts provided by Lifehacker:

• Understanding the Matrix of Self-Management
• The Victim/Responder
• The Micromanager/Implementer
• The Crazymaker/Visionary
• The Captain and Commander
• The Matrix Is Relative, Situational, and Fluid
• Paying Attention to What Has Your Attention

Effect v. Affect

So…do we really need professors lecturing to us when we have these kinds of materials (lectures) available online? Time for professors to reinvent ourselves, I think.

Hammer, Langdon “Introduction to Modern Poetry.” Academic Earth. 14 Nov 2008. Web. 25 Jan 2009.
with Handouts and transcript. Amazing quality.

This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism.

Too cool.

Nevada has some good 6-Trait Writing -focused resources. A lot of time went into this…