I have neglected blogging for much of the last school year, swamped as we have been with new routines. In August 2023, the girls again…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: education
Forgive the third-person weirdness of the following brief biography. Bits of pieces of this have been used at conferences, on department websites, and alongside publications.…
The back-to-school experiment lasted four days for the little one. By Thursday of the first week, it was clear that this wasn’t a good experience…
Monday, August 15, 2022. Today, our daughters returned to their public school for the first time since March 13, 2020. Yes, I’ll remember those dates.…
Online education is an accommodation to life’s realities. For years I denied that online education was in many ways inferior to physical campuses. But, now…
As some of you know, I decided against renewing my contract with the university where I work. Basically, the choice I faced was either to…
There are colleges and universities moving towards 120-semester-unit bachelor’s degrees, down from 132 or more in many cases. Others are seeking ways to offer “accelerated”…
I teach at a small regional and it is making some positive moves to foster online and traditional courses that are compelling for students. We…
People have asked me (okay, two people) what “Poet Ponders” is meant to be. What is my purpose? I now will attempt to clarify what…
I have outlined two projects with Mariner Software’s Contour 1.2 and remain uncertain about the product for several reasons. The program is marred by sloppy…