Posted in believe, dallas, anaheim, orlando, denver, seattle, 2003, my, educause, hard, conference, General on Oct 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
My fifth EDUCAUSE conference. Hard to believe. Anaheim, Denver, Orlando, Dallas, and now Seattle. Each year I’ve met extraordinary people and learned a ton.
This year is particularly poignant for me.
I’m on the program committee, which has given me the opportunity to see the event emerge from the ground up, and to work with creative, devoted […]
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Posted in teacher, mind, open, cleverer, student, bold, creative, hard, my, students, bear, committed, General on Sep 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
I tell my students again and again that I’m a better teacher when they’re better students, and that part of being a better student is not just being a cleverer student but being a more open and committed student. Bear down hard, be prepared for class, be creative and bold, and above all let me […]
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Posted in medievalist in residence, kolve, pronunciation, lines, doubt, differ, canterbury, tales, students, prologue, hard, details, philologists, the, my, kennedy, terry, imitate, eighteen, ach, General on Sep 20th, 2007 Comments Off
With apologies to V. A. (Del) Kolve, whose pronunciation I am trying hard to imitate (listen to number six here for an example of Mr. Kolve’s reading), and Terry Kennedy, our dynamic medievalist-in-residence, who will no doubt differ with me on certain details (philologists! ach, du lieber!), I offer here a recitation of the first […]
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