I'm reading Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed and am fascinated by the portrait of the three societies in the novel. An interesting side note is that my copy of the…
Love Guaranteed ☆☆☆ Completely predictable, innocuous romantic comedy. Pleasant but not deep. Just what we needed on the Saturday evening when we were watching it. On Netflix with Ann, Pat,…
As is typical in the Fall semesters, I am teaching a section of our first year, project-based course Tackling a Wicked Problem. Back before we knew the extent of the…
Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga ☆☆☆ Typically uneven Will Ferrell movie. Rachel McAdams and Dan Stevens were fantastically fun and there was a lot to smile about. Ferrell was…
The latest assignment for the Tackling a Wicked Problem/Integrated Capstone track of Plymouth State University's Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community asks us to: Write (and share if you feel comfortable doing…
I attended the virtual IndieWebCamp West meeting this weekend. Yesterday, I listened to people talk about their web sites and how they did what they did on them. It…
Becoming ☆☆☆☆☆ A Netflix original documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour for her autobiography Becoming. I enjoyed the book and the documentary covers some of the same material.…
For the second summer in a row, I'm participating in a faculty learning community at Plymouth State University focused on our cluster learning model. One of the exercises we engaged…
I was challenged on Facebook to post 10 books in 10 days that have had an influence on me. Not surprisingly, it was really challenging to narrow this down to…
A Secret Love ☆☆☆☆☆ A documentary telling the story of Pat and Terry, two women who began to live with each other as romantic partners in the 1940s. They kept…
The following resources (courses, OER, videos, etc.) are all freely available. I haven't vetted most of them other than reading their descriptions. Delivering High-Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID-19:…
On May 18, 2020, The Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching published a timely article that I am finding helpful as I begin my thinking about teaching Tackling a WIcked…
Because of the uncertainty about the Fall 2020 semester, my university has decided that if a first year student wants to take all of their classes online, we would have…
Last week, Plymouth State University faculty participated in an event called Slipper Camp ("like boot camp but softer and on Zoom") in which we discussed various issues related to designing…
I am proud to be part of the learning community that created this newly available, openly-licensed book: Cluster Learning at Plymouth State: A Community-Based Approach to Pedagogy.
The Incredible Jessica James ☆☆☆ There are a couple of really great scenes in this movie but in general, it's not a particularly funny movie. The main character's relationship with…
One of the problems we have encountered at Plymouth State University in implementing our Integrated Cluster Initiative involves effective communication with students about the opportunities offered in different classes and/or…
Before we were ordered to stay at home, the Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Advisory Group planned a workshop on the Boyer Model of Scholarship to be presented twice--once on April…
I have written before about the amazing Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC) that I and 70 of my colleagues have been working in this past year. As a finish to…