I rarely say much these days about teaching, and I suppose that’s due in part to the peculiarity of the entire adjunct-in-a-foreign-environment situation. Being an adjunct is simply weird enough, but compound it with a foreign system (note that “foreign” here means foreign to me) and you feel remarkably like you’re walking through a carnival [...]
This week’s readings:
1. Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”;
2. excerpt; Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folks;
3. student blogs.
Every class is different, and this one is no exception to that rule. There are 17 students, it’s a fully online class, and there were 133 posts to the introductions forum alone. They’re an eclectic group, [...]
I realized the other day that it’s been almost two weeks since I’ve posted, and it’s time to catch up.
Things have been busy with a lot of cleanup from last fall and some startup for this term, but there’s been some fallout, too.
General Academics/Teaching
I had an interesting conversation with a teacher a little while ago, [...]
