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Various musings about teaching and learning in the age of the mobile digital device.

Date	Essay	Notes/Summary
2018-12-27	“Class Participation.”	Each of us must take responsibility for our own intellectual betterment and fulfillment.
2018-02-15	“Developing Integral Writing Skills for the Digital Age.”	We academics seem to have a problem with Wikipedia. Guest blogger for WikiEdu.
2017-01-02	“Be an Expert.”	Adopt a professional approach to thinking and working to transition out of student thinking.
2016-06-22	“Recommended Apps for Higher Education”	I'm often asked which applications I recommend for the college classroom, so I started a list.
2016-06-08	“Hack.Edu Manifesto.”	With mobile devices and social media, we can be guided by the spirit of the hacker to change education for the better.
2015-06-04	“Distributed DH.”	Hacking readymade components for Digital Humanities projects. The Synapse.
2015-03-28	“The Liberal Arts Are Dead.”	Should we educators just face the music and accept the fact higher ed is now just for job training? The Synapse.
2014-08-12	“Obsolete Education.”	In a new, digital world, why is education still firmly part of an old one?
2014-02-09	“Claim Your Name.”	Make smart choices when using social media professionally to avoid privacy and security concerns.
2014-01-06	“Energize Teaching with Social Media.”	A guide for higher education faculty for introducing social media into the classroom.
2013-09-30	“How to Do Well in My Class.”	Students should engage learning with enthusiasm, imagination, and focus.
2013-08-30	“Social Media: Top Ten Best Practices.”	My list of best practices for faculty in higher education teaching with social media.
2013-08-18	“The Liberal Arts Education.”	Does college teach us the difference between working to live and having a life?
2011-12-11	“The Subversive Education.”	Real education is subversive. It’s about nuance and irony — challenging the status quo. This is what I do.
2009-02-22	“World.Lit.”	(Re)Visioning Literary Education Online. From Teaching Literature and Language Online.
2002-03-07	“Open Source and Higher Eduction.”	(Or, Ethical Concerns about Microsoft in the Academy)
1997-12-20	“Teaching Philosophy”	Education must keep up with technology, and educators should help students build their own canons.