Professional Raconteur: The racket of Professing

raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun: One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes. Raconteur is from French, from raconter, "to relate, to tell, to narrate," from Old French, from re- + aconter. Higher education in all its "glory": teaching, writing, politics (when it's possible to be discreet, of course), and anything I have to profess or confess.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Students cheating: What to do?

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I have my own ways of preventing plagiarism on scholarly papers, most notably using turnitin.com and relying on the vigilance of the gradua...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Flashback to a simpler time...my old website!

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Just had a strange experience. I went searching for an old hypertext performance I had put together for a graduate class at Arizona State Un...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Students as facebook friends: Too much, too close?

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What's the harm? I innocently thought. Having a facebook group for the basic communication class I teach was a great idea (started by a ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Simple Answers to Difficult Questions

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As Director of our basic course and supervisor of 30-40 Graduate Teaching Associates, I often have to complete online training courses about...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Summertime, and the living's...easy?

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I used to dislike summers. Sounds strange to some, I know. I didn't like summers because school was out. Sounds even stranger, huh? Here...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Are there any original experiments in social behavior left?

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If the Pulitzer isn't proof of an original thinker, what is? In Communication Studies, we often value building on the work others, even ...

How to "fix" a basic communication course?

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Well, not fix so much as refine, revise, and improve. My colleagues and I did some work on our basic communication course this past year wit...
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