Why that law school application might not be such a good idea after all

For those of you thinking about Law School, let me encourage you to read the excellent article “The Falling-Down Professions” at the NY Times site. Maybe it’s time to consider going to get that film school or MFA after all?
Bonus: Do yourself a favor and pick up Dan Pink’s excellent A Whole New Mind and [...]

Rate My Professor Posters Can Be Real Punks…

Especially when they do obvious “hit” posts after receiving a bad grade. I mean, seriously, how can you trust a rating given by an anonymous student after they receive their grade? If they got a bad grade, they’re pissed and want to get back at you somehow (and often they will lie to do it [...]

One Last Thing – November 8th

EDIT: The talk will be at 6pm NOT 6:30 as previously announced. My error. 
The promotional materials should be going out soon for the talk I’m giving for the UK Student Activities Board’s “One Last Thing” lecture series on November 8th, 6:30pm 6pm at the W.T. Young Library Auditorium. This lecture series asks faculty members to [...]

Sustainability in/and Appalachia

I’ll be speaking on a panel at tomorrow’s sustainability conference at UK. The panel is titled “Sustainability in/and Appalachia” and I’l be speaking about nonprofit organizations and sustainability in the region. Other panel members include Ernie Yanarella, Herb Reid and Dick Levine. The panel will start at 1pm in Room  359 of the UK Student [...]

Because a Conservative Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Found over at Crooks and Liars:

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But seriously. Young America Foundation -I get it. Really I do. But please understand: there is a LIMITED amount of time and sources that can be covered in a given course. If you’re going to put people like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter (who I get as a [...]

Recent Pew Study States the Obvious, Web 2.0 used by 20-somethings

This story over at cnet, “Wired but not Web 2.0? That’s normal, study says,” reads sort of like a “Dog Bites Man” story – in other words, didn’t we already know this? Article references a recent (and actually very interesting) study put out by the Pew Internet & American Life project which breaks down the [...]

Useful Websites for College Students

Found over at Mashable: a list of 60+ useful websites and web-based apps for college students in categories such as buy/sell/trade textbooks, homework reference and work sites, organizational sites and social networks. I’d heard of a few of these, but most of these are new to me. A great resource for both incoming and returning [...]

Teaching the Web 2.0 Student

I ran across this presentation a few months ago on Slideshare:

It really got me thinking about how we educate college students, and what kind of a world we are preparing them for. Clearly our “Charlie’s”  are going to increasingly find themselves working in these types of “virtual companies,” so what are we doing at the [...]

“Of course you can’t say that because then you are a whore…”

This quote from an interview with David Mamet over at Suicide Girls (caution: Suicide Girls is definitely NSFW) contains genius:

 
DRE: Have you ever felt like a whore?
 
DM: I’ll tell you what my dear friend Shel Silverstein, may he rest in peace, said. I was bitching and moaning about screenwriting and he said, “Dave, I’ll tell [...]

Dan Pink on Choosing a Major

I wish all of my students, especially my Freshmen and Sophomores, would watch this video when thinking about choosing a major. I think a lot of fellow faculty members would benefit from incorporating the “whole-brain” skills Pink mentions at the end of the video into their course design and assignments.