I have several posts that I plan on writing about my past weekend at Educon. Before I proceed, let me just get one thing out of the way: this was one of the best conferences I have ever been to. I’m going to talk in a future post about why I think this was, but, [...]
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Aside from last year’s Faculty Academy, it’s been almost a year and a half since I’ve attended a conference. This was a personal decision on my part. I chose to come back to UMW part-time after my maternity leave and staying home with my family has been my number-one priority. But last January, I listened [...]
In which, against my better judgement, I publically admit that Jim Groom might be right
Published January 10th, 2010 7 CommentsIn our offices at DTLT we are all frequently victims of listening to each others’ diatribes against any number of forces threatening higher education, online community, and the world, in general. One of Jim Groom’s favorite topics to rail about is “Twitter is killing Blogging.”
Okay, now that that’s done, let me tell you why I really don’t suck after all. (As if there was really any doubt.)
As of about a week and a half ago, I am the owner of this Web site and domain. Up until then, the University of Mary Washington (where I work part-time), owned this [...]
Several reasons why the above is true:
1. My personal WP blog is so out-of-date in terms of version, I’m embarrassed to tell you what version I’m using.
2. I’ve been so bad about staying on top of my blog, I just found two nice comments buried in my spam from months ago. I’m a loser.
3. Did [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my first stint at Mary Washington, now close to 10 years ago. (wow!) I’m not sure why, except that a few things have reminded me about how different the job I have now is compared to the one I had then.
In early 2000, I joined the staff of [...]
Last week, my family spent a few days visiting family and friends in New York. It was a lovely trip, and, at some point, I plan on blogging about the few days we spent in Chautauqua, NY (where a dear friend of mine and her husband play every summer in the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra). Our [...]
A long, long time ago, Rev. Jim blogged about a new theme for Wordpress know as Prologue, which created a Twitter-like front-end on a Wordpress blog. The basic idea is that the authors of the blog can quickly write a short post (a la Twitter) right from the blog’s front page. In typical fashion, Jim [...]
I have 1,965 things I need to get done right now, but I’ve decided to take a break and write about something that’s been troubling me. Consider this post my “true confessions,” if you like.
I like school.
There, I said it.
Now, tell me, why does writing those words feel like I’ve said something entirely unforgivable? These [...]
I believe I shall start my own EDUPUNK-inspired meme. I know I’m a day late and a dollar short climbing on this internet bandwagon (how’s that for a metaphorical soup?), but my mad Photoshop skills were just itching to be taken for a spin.
And so I give you. . .
EDUPUNKY BREWSTER
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