Truthfully, I don’t even know where to start. The past month has been one of catching up and trying to maintain, and things are finally starting to stabilize. The SNHU class is finished, although the term didn’t go as strongly as I’d have liked as a result of the earlier chaos, and there are some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]