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TriWriMo: Starting a Writing group at Trinity University
Working together to achieve our goals Spurred on by November writing challenges like NaNoWriMo, DigiWriMo, and particularly Academic Writing Month (#AcWriMo), I sent out an email to our campus...
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New course in Grant-writing and Fundraising
ALE 3301: A new course at Trinity University Trinity University’s curriculum council has approved my course for Fall 2013. “Grant-writing and Fundraising” will be the inaugural course in Trinity’s new...
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Capacity for Transformation
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity...
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No country for old scientists
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the...
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Educators and Ed entrepreneurs: A Ballad of East and West
Sebastian Thrun of Udacity George Station posted over on Google Plus about Tom Whitby’s experience at the recent iNACOL Virtual School Symposium. To summarize, Tom was turned off by the vendor-centric...
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The Demon-Haunted World
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the Unites States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped...
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The Average Teacher
The average teacher explains complexity; The gifted teacher reveals simplicity. - Robert Brault photo credit: Tulane Public Relations via photopin cc Filed under: Teaching & Learning, Work Tagged:...
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Stature
“Government didn’t get smaller under the Republicans; it just lost its stature.” - anonymous comment on DailyKos photo credit: sudphoto via photopin cc Filed under: Humor Tagged: election, government,...
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True democracy
“The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.” - Michael Pollan photo credit: erix! via photopin cc Filed under: Inspiration...
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Looking for a few good nonprofits
In the fall of 2013, I will offer a course at Trinity University on grant-writing and fundraising. The course will engage juniors and seniors in a series of projects to bridge their liberal arts...
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Don’t settle
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you...
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There are problems and then there are problems
“Problems worthy of attack, prove their worth by hitting back” - Piet Hein photo credit: rogersmithpix via photopin cc Filed under: Inspiration Tagged: Piet Hein, problem-solving, quotation, quote
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Inventors of the Future
Inventor of the future “Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the...
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Python MOOCs: The ultimate show-down!
In which Goldilocks learns to code. These days, there are several dozen ways to learn to code online. Python, in particular, is the language of choice for several online courses. This has allowed me...
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Exquisite dependence
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan photo credit: Sérgio Bernardino via photopin cc...
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There are plants and then there are plants…
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t“ - Michael Pollan photo credit: jazzijava via photopin cc Filed under: Humor Tagged: agriculture, food, nutrition, quotation, quote
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The American psyche
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck photo credit: Lisa Brewster via...
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Massive Open Online Courses and your Non-profit
I said MOOC, not moo! I have been following with great interest the excitement over the last year about Massive Open Online courses. MOOCs, as they are called, are classes offered by well-known...
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Rebooting this blog
Looking back at 2012 after changing jobs twice and thinking I should have kept up with this blog all along. Now that I am at UVA, trying to learn Data Science to keep up with my new colleagues, I...
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Liberating education
“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.” ― Paulo Freire
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