Design as a Component of General Education
I have long been interested in design. I started my career as a computer scientist. I had fallen in love with programming at the age of 15 and wanted to…
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
This is the fourth movie in a row that I've seen in a theater that is based on events in someone's life (Free Solo, The Old Man and the Gun,…
Bohemian Rhapsody
I loved this movie! I had read some not so great reviews and so was completely prepared to be disappointed. I recognize and even agree with the criticisms but despite…
Edward Tufte: Visualizing Data
I went to a one day course in Boston at the end of October led by Edward Tufte, the author of many books on data and information visualization. I have long…
The Old Man and The Gun
Based on the real life of Forrest Tucker, a lifelong criminal who escaped from prison numerous time. The title of the movie comes from a New Yorker profile written by David…
Free Solo
I loved this documentary. It tells the story of Alex Honnold's quest to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. What does it mean to free solo a climbing route?…
Connected Learning: Thematic Pathways in General Education
I have been doing a lot of presentations and having a lot of conversations about General Education at PSU and its relationship to our Integrated Cluster Initiative. In particular, we…
Venom
I didn't have too many expectations about this movie because I didn't really know Venom from the Marvel Universe. I had heard that critics generally didn't like the movie but…
Communicating about General Education
Communicating about all the exciting things happening in General Education at Plymouth State University has been a major focus of my work for the past couple of weeks. I have…
October Movies
Interestingly, I give all three movies I've seen so far in October the same rating but for very different reasons. The three movies are: A Star is Born, First Man,…
Creative Commons Certification
I completed the Creative Commons Certification class last month and received my certificate yesterday. I strongly encourage anyone interested in open educational resources, open pedagogy, or alternative licensing for creative…
The Wife
I was excited to see this movie, mainly because I really like Glenn Close. She was excellent as always. But this was one of the most annoying movies I've ever…
Integrated Capstone Course for General Education
One of the President's Four Tools of Clusters is an integrated capstone experience for all students. PSU's Integration Connection (INCO) course was originally designed to be a capstone course for…
Searching
Searching starts well, telling the story of a young family entirely through their interactions with a computer. We see the moment when the daughter is old enough to get her account…
Advocating for “Open”
Because NH students have the highest student loan debt in the country, I think every instructor in public higher education in the state has an obligation to minimize student expenses…
Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby's enjoyable novels have been made into some great movies--About a Boy and High Fidelity come to mind. Juliet, Naked is one of my favorite Hornby novels and this adaptation…
Integrated Clusters, General Education, and the Creative Commons
Plymouth State University's president came to campus three years ago with a vision that, at the time, he called "Strategic Clusters" (which has since been rebranded as "Integrated Clusters"). I…
Grading, Assessment, and Habits of Mind
In my last post, I wrote about the Habits of Mind that the Gen Ed Outcomes Task Force created last year as Gen Ed program learning outcomes. These were developed…
Habits of Mind: Infographic
One of the major tasks on my agenda as Coordinator of General Education is to figure out how to appropriately assess the Gen Ed program without adding too much to…
End of Summer Movies
I have gotten behind in writing my mini movie reviews. So here is a post to talk about the movies I have seen in the last month and a half.…
