In this TED talk, Andrew Solomon concisely and effectively offers insight to many unspoken and misunderstood facets of depression from what it feels like, what it is, to alternative solutions and socionomic prevalence and implications. He opens up about his own experience with depression and how he was able to overcome it. Solomon uses experiences …
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Sep 25
TED Talk: Being Just Crazy Enough
In this TED Talk, comedian Joshua Walters, offers a different perspective on being bipolar and having manic episodes. He offers the idea that one can choose to deny the illness and go through life over medicated, or one can use the illness and the manic episodes as a tool. He spends most of the clip …
Sep 23
TED Talks – Marine Biology
Mike duGruy: Hooked by an octopus Mike deGruy is a marine zoologist that became interested in the field after a remarkable encounter with an octopus. He recounts the meeting and points out some of the differences between animals living in our oceans. He explains an entire ecosystem living in the mid-ocean ridge unknown to the …
Sep 23
Internet Trolls — Another View…
Here is an interesting counter view to our KM article read — “How to Tame an Internet Troll” This view argues that trolls provide a useful function in society — “Why We Meed Trolls…“
Sep 12
And so it continues…
Here is another great article exploring the topic of scholarship in social media…or is it scholarship? The author writes of his own scholarship and use of blogs and Twitter, being cited, and struggles within the academic scope of these forums being valued. http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/social-media-service-and-the-perils-of-scholarly-affect/
Sep 08
Twitter and Tenure
Following on our class discussions on Social Media and Twitter as forums for scholarship and the question of “appropriate” spaces comes into play – here is a post from today’s InsideHigherEd as an Association publishes a committee report on Social Media and its impact on Tenure decisions, “Twitter Your Way to Tenure.”
Sep 06
Find your voice!
This week I read an article that I absolutely loved, “Giving Voice to Written Words”. The article is a wonderful read coming off of our discussions of “Inventing the University”, academic writing, and our podcast assignment. This piece, while short, is beautifully written and makes strong points for the power of our voice in our …
Sep 06
The Perils of For-Profit Educational Institutions
Originally I chose to steer away from for-profit educational institutions as a means of getting a degree in my chosen field. Recently they have grown in popularity and re-evaluated that decision after learning some of my peers had received their degree from such institutions. I eventually decided that the risk was too great. I could …
Sep 06
Swales ~ still part of the conversation…
From a blog post today in The Chronicle from Lingua Franca, John Swales is cited as having “changed the life” of the author — regarding the dilemma of the “unattended this” in written scholarship In 2009, when I was teaching an upper-level grammar course that I called “Grammar Boot Camp,” the students and I read an …
Aug 30
Academic Computing
After taking a queue from a few of the other students in class… I, too, decided to look beyond the realm of the posted blogs and find another blog to follow to add more diversity to the conversation. I tripped upon the “Academic Computing” blog, written by Neil Brown. He is a education computing researcher …
