Students often write horribly convoluted and passive sentences. A cause of this phenomenon is likely related to another befuddling phenomenon: questions about “I statements.” For …

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As a teacher and researcher of feedback, I’ve long been fascinated by the popular discourse about feedback to children. The alleged praise-happy softness of …

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My year away from teaching while at the Berkman Center meant I approached this year with a lot of enthusiasm. In the fall, I continued …

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Last week I enjoyed ROFLCon here in Cambridge. In particular, Zittrain’s talk was enjoyable as always (i.e., interesting and funny) and the Fangirl …

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This weekend I placed last semester’s New Media Culture course up at Github under a CC license; it includes the source files for the …

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I’m at that point in the semester where I’m asking students to think about what they want to do for their more open-ended …

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I’ve not made much use of in-class exams before, but I gave the first one of this semester and it prompted the question in …

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It’s been a relatively quiet summer but there’s plenty to blog about as the new semester begins.

An exciting bit of news is …

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In my writing up to now, I italicize Britannica because it is a book. I never italicize Wikipedia or blog names because as The Chicago …

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The Chronicle just published an article by Tushar Rae about how E-Books’ Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars. I think this was prompted …

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