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Category Archives: Higher education
Better research using Google’s lesser-known search tools
Research is so boring. Except when you find amazing stuff that totally elevates your work. Then it’s actually cool. People like learning new things, gaining new insights, pulling back the curtain to see who’s really pulling the levers behind the … Continue reading
A tour of public sculpture along Milwaukee’s RiverWalk and Wisconsin Avenue
A photo of my colleague, Margaret Dwyer, and me with “The Bronze Fonz,” taken during last Saturday’s walking tour of public sculptures along the Milwaukee RiverWalk and Wisconsin Avenue. We led a group of MSOE students on the two-hour walk … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Higher education, Milwaukee, Photography
Tagged Milwaukee, Milwaukee River, Milwaukee Riverwalk, MSOE, public art
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Atrium staircase, late afternoon
I am in the middle of grading midterms today. That involves lots of sitting, punctuated by the need to get up and stretch my legs more often than I usually think to remember. There is lots of late afternoon sunshine … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Higher education, Life, Milwaukee, Photography, Teaching
Tagged Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee
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What’s in a tagline? My blog’s identity: Version 4.0
I’m developing a new course at MSOE called “SS 3700 Digital Society.” To say I’m excited is to understate my enthusiasm for this topic. As a political science major who took computer programming classes in the late 1970s using a … Continue reading
Posted in Higher education, Learning, Life, Popular culture, Science, Teaching, Technology, Writing, blogging
Tagged blogging, curiosity, digital society, lifelong learning
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Changes at MSOE – A snapshot of the old and the (very) new
Walking back to my office from the scholarship luncheon today (a really nice event where MSOE scholarship sponsors and recipients get to meet over a meal), I noticed the old Blatz Brewing Company logo atop MSOE’s Alumni Partnership Center. The … Continue reading
Functionality in search of purpose
Although I’ve noticed this item in the corner of a classroom I teach in this quarter, I never looked closely at it until today, when it was in a slightly different location. I almost didn’t recognize what it was. That’s … Continue reading
How Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer teaches like a humanities professor
As yesterday’s 59–0 Ohio State victory over Wisconsin shows, something is working very well in the Ohio State coaching strategy. A story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal provides some insight into what that might be. “Taking the Buckeyes to School” talks about how … Continue reading
Posted in Higher education, Learning, Life, News, Teaching
Tagged coaching, flipped classroom, football coaching, football team, Ohio State, ohio state football, sports, teaching, teaching humanities, Urban Meyer
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Does penmanship matter?
Two handwriting stories. One: After I got a D in penmanship in third grade, my parents made me sit at our dining room table every night practicing my handwriting. The reason I’d gotten a similarly bad grade in arithmetic was that … Continue reading
Posted in Higher education, Life, Music, Popular culture, Teaching, Technology, Writing, blogging
Tagged Bob Dylan, cursive, handwriting, keyboarding, lyrics, notetaking, penmanship, technology
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Art -vs- Science: An Artificial Divide
I was paging through the weekend Wall Street Journal this morning and practically jumped out of my chair when I saw Walter Murch’s face looking out from the “Review” section. Murch is an Oscar-winning film editor who has worked on … Continue reading
Moments of Classroom Grace
My friend and colleague, Lisa Rivero, posted on the topic of “Classroom Grace” last week over on her blog. I’ve been thinking about her remarks ever since. Lisa was talking about those magical moments that happen in classrooms, especially in … Continue reading