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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.
- July 28, 2020 Faculty brownbag: An educational technology perspective on the flipped classroom
- July 22, 2020 Lots of talk right now about students dissatisfied with online teaching. While those voices shouldn’t be ignored, I’ve also already had three students (of thirty) in my fall hybrid class specifically ask to take it fully online.
- July 17, 2020 My brain has decided to treat me to an unrequested Serge Gainsbourg/Hamilton mashup, and I’m not sure what to think.
- July 17, 2020 One of my earliest publications has been added to a research anthology without my knowledge or consent, since publisher owns copyright. Not necessarily opposed to end result, but still miffed about lack of control.
- July 14, 2020 The NPR radio adaptation of Star Wars is just as great—and just as terrible—as you would think. Totally worth a listen.
- July 8, 2020 Victoire du jour : apprendre que la FNAC fera livrer des livres jusqu’au Kentucky. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
- July 5, 2020 Late fines start to lose some of their teeth once you start reframing them as new opportunities to financially support your local library.
- July 1, 2020 New Publication: Differences between Teacher-focused Twitter Hashtags
- June 11, 2020 Resolved, that watching a clip of the first Enterprise vs. Reliant fight from Wrath of Khan shall be accepted as a legitimate reason for staying up too late.
- June 6, 2020 The more tired I am, the more easily I cry, so maybe staying up late last night and running 10k this morning were not great choices prior to introducing my kid to Up.
- May 28, 2020 Currently reading Superman Smashes the Klan, and it is the epitome of what a Superman comic should be. Can’t recommend enough.
- May 15, 2020 One of my favorite things about university libraries and ILL is that they’re officially there for research, but no one will stop you from reading the books just because you want to.
- May 8, 2020 Is my brain mush right now because grading is hard? Or is grading hard right now because my brain is mush?
- May 8, 2020 'with Canvas being an educational software, it does have to be tracked'
- May 6, 2020 I think my favorite official responsibility as webmaster of the Global Mormon Studies network is to try to infiltrate images of Pikachu into Zoom meetings to test our security. (Succeeded today, but barely).
- May 1, 2020 Every day that goes by in this election cycle just makes me more frustrated that we don’t have ranked-choice voting.
- April 30, 2020 One of the best things I did as a brand new faculty member was to decide on a standard files and folders scheme. Still thanking myself for it.
- April 24, 2020 The thing about getting in the habit of reading privacy policies is that it sometimes changes your behavior, but it ALWAYS ups your anxiety about the impossibility of ever changing your behavior sufficiently.
- April 24, 2020 Just figured out a regex solution to something in under ten minutes. Watch out Friday, nothing can stop me now.
- April 14, 2020 This afternoon, a career in academia looks like working from the kitchen table, playing a French 80s radio station, and fuming at Reviewer B’s complaints about my using the journal’s template like I was asked to.