Category Archives: education

Santos on Fish on Donoghue Take Two

Posted on January 21, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

My last post came on little sleep, so I thought I might try again. Actually, I already tried again in an email exchange with an old friend. He wrote to get my thoughts on Fish’s piece. Here’s my (hopefully) more … Continue reading →

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Fish on Donoghue on the State of the Humanities

Posted on January 20, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Stanley Fish has a review of Frank Donoghue’s recent book The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. Reading his review, I couldn’t help but think of my recent post on the links between my teaching … Continue reading →

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Productive Mess Hits the Airwaves

Posted on January 16, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Here’s some shameless self-promotion: the new issue of Kairos includes my article with Nathaniel Rivers and Ryan Weber “Productive Mess: First-Year Composition Takes the University’s Agonism Online.” The article has two main arguments: first, it discusses how to better integrate … Continue reading →

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Moral of the Story

Posted on July 7, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

So, this weekend we spent a lot of time lighting fireworks with the neighbors. Among us was an 8th grader who loved reading. As she listed off a litany of her favorite books, I periodically asked “what was the moral … Continue reading →

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Standards Compliant URLs

Posted on July 27, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I haven’t put up a technology-oriented post in awhile, but, then again, I haven’t been doing much web design this summer. This week I’ve started working on my course website for the fall, and thought I might share a cool, … Continue reading →

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Google’s Candidate?

Posted on July 19, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

TechCrunch recently published an article on congressman Ron Paul, a presidential candidate who is running a digital campaign. Paul is gathering support through all the Web2.0 usual suspects: a typepad blog, digg, eventful, flickr, meetup, MySpace, and YouTube. The article … Continue reading →

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There goes Obi-Wan

Posted on June 20, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I read a kind of farewell post over at Lawrence Lessig’s blog yesterday with a heavy heart. Lessig announced that he will be changing the focus of his research and activism, moving away from intellectual property and net neutrality and … Continue reading →

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Smartest 4th Graders Ever….(Sorta)

Posted on June 8, 2007 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

As the NY Times reported yesterday, the 2005 NAEP scores are out–and Mass is kicking ass. Woo Hoo! Go home state!! WOO HOO!!!! (Shouldn’t academics get some of that sports-passion?). For 4th graders on reading evaluation, Mass has the toughest … Continue reading →

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