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This page is the home to both long(er)-form blog posts (which are collected separately here and have their own RSS feed) and to microposts (~280 characters) that get forwarded to my Twitter and Micro.blog accounts (and can also be read here or followed here). You can read more about the reasoning behind my web presence on my About page.
- December 6, 2019 Currently completing my annual review, which has me thinking how much of my career I owe to more senior academics who have been kind and generous to me when they didn’t have to be. Hope I can follow that example myself.
- December 4, 2019 New Publication: Spam and Educators' Twitter Use
- November 25, 2019 If only I had known as a middle schooler who was uncool for not knowing who Eminem was that one day I would be explaining a “Real Slim Shady” joke in an academic research paper about how Mormons use Twitter 😂🤷🏼♂️
- November 11, 2019 Report from AECT 2019
- November 5, 2019 My dual monitor setup relies on my using my standing desk. Since I’m under the weather today, I’m working from a chair instead and trying out the new Sidecar functionality for my iPad. Pleased with it so far!
- November 1, 2019 Seven years ago, I was applying for grad school, wrestling with the idea of leaving French teaching behind. The longer I spend in this career, though, the more I believe my experience learning and teaching language and culture affects my work.
- October 30, 2019 Libraries are beautiful places: I just left one with four volumes of Star Wars/Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comics and a copy of Dr. Wil Gafney’s “Womanist Midrash.”
- October 30, 2019 I had my information literacy and critical thinking students annotate the Wendy’s roleplaying game with comments about how it functions as a persuasive document, and the results are delightful.
- October 18, 2019 The hardest manuscripts to review are the ones that promise something that’s legitimately needed in the literature but then fail to follow through with that promise.
- October 5, 2019 Attention thinkpiece writers: My toddler is now requesting avocado toast for dinner. I am now taking bids for the right to interview us and complain about millennials and their kids in your column.
- October 4, 2019 Filter Bubble Teaching Activities
- October 1, 2019 Today, my kid grabbed a TPB of Ms. Marvel I had checked out from the library, hugged it tight, and announced that she loved it, so I’m feeling pretty good in the parenting department right now.
- September 28, 2019 Yet another Grammarly ad has me thinking... I think my skepticism about AI is not so much the mistakes it makes so much as it is the assumption that human experiences are so well-structured that they can be reduced to an algorithm.
- September 26, 2019 Starting to wonder if Solomon’s “wise” suggestion to cut the baby in half was actually his editorial summary of the advice provided by three conflicting reviewers.
- September 24, 2019 Just learned that there’s a French cover of “Raindrops Falling on My Head,” and now I want to know if they use it in the French dub of Spider-Man 2.
- September 21, 2019 I feel subversive (but absolutely justified) whenever I argue for interpreting “quantitative” data through an interpretivist lens.
- September 18, 2019 New Publication: The Fun of Its Parts
- September 18, 2019 Completed a flat-tire-halfway-to-campus bike commuter’s biathlon today.
- September 15, 2019 Gonna start spelling GIF as /dʒɪf/ to make my feelings about the pronunciation clear.
- September 14, 2019 I keep getting automated emails from work that I shouldn’t be getting, but I’m an edge case of what the inclusion criteria are. It’s frustrating, but also a good reminder of need to reflect on variable definitions in computational research. 😂