Thinking about fall teaching, and I think I’m going to end up spending much of the first two weeks working on building community engagement in my classes. Which we always do some of anyway, with name games and such, but I’m planning to surface the issue of engagement in online courses with the students, being […]
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What should schools do in the fall? Three years ago, I decided to run for office, the smallest of local offices, library board. I almost ran for school board instead, and, not knowing much about either, mostly picked library board because an elected official I talked to told me that the school board meetings sometimes
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I’ve written to a possible donor about funding for the SLF that might allow me to put off doing a Portolan Project Kickstarter for a few months, which would be great; I could just focus on producing good work, rather than taking out time to raise money — it’d also mean that we would have
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Hey, folks — I’ll be on local public TV again, with a few book recommendations for good summer reading during a pandemic. They asked me for five books, and I gave them: – Tender at the Bone (Ruth Reichl) – The Lesson (Cadwell Turnbull) – Give a Girl a Knife (Amy Thielen) – A Game
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Grades are in. Whew. That was…a semester. Not gonna lie, there were times I felt like we were all gonna crawl across that finish line.
There’s a big discussion happening in the local working moms group about schooling, including a lot of critique of teachers and a lot of bewilderment about why they aren’t just doing Zoom classes all day. I ended up writing a long thing: A few thoughts, as a UIC professor, and as the parent of a
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Started a shared doc with Darius and Benjamin with podcast notes. I continue to be slow to adapt to this brave new world of shared docs and such, but I’ll get there. It just makes me anxious — what if someone deletes something important? There seems to be a lot of trust involved in working collaboratively in the cloud.
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Sometimes you just wake up full of don’t wanna, and I’m thankful that this morning, I don’t haveta. I have a university Zoom town hall at 10:30, talking about the fall semester (sigh). But until then, I’ve put on comfy pj’s, gotten myself coffee and meds and two seeni sambol buns, and returned to bed
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Podcasting notes! Help needed. This morning, I spent two hours + online with Benjamin Rosenbaum, recording the first in what we hope will turn into a podcast. A few notes & questions from the experience: – we still don’t have a title, even though we were supposed to spend the time brainstorming the title; we’re going
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Moments from a pandemic: Anand, shouting in delight just now: “Oranges!” (we got a grocery delivery last night; we’d been getting a little short on fresh fruit, and were definitely feeling it) Roshani reminding me that we’re entering acceleration phase, and no, I really don’t need to go to the garden store right now, seriously,
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