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I'm a writer and a professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. You can learn more than you want to learn about me by clicking on "about." You can contact me by sending email to skrause at emich dot edu.
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Author Archives: Steve Krause
Post from sabbatical-land 202 days to go: a tangent thought about the need (or lack thereof?) for teaching code in web writing courses
I have been doing some reading and writing that is more directly tied to my MOOC sabbatical project than this post, honest. Lately, I’ve been reading and writing about correspondence schools and how they were influenced by the 19th century … Continue reading
(At least one of) The reason(s) I decided to go into composition and rhetoric: the creative writing edition
I read two pieces about the logistics of supporting one’s self as a writer yesterday and this morning– or maybe a better way of putting it is how it’s almost impossible to support one’s self as a poet or fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Sabbatical II, Scholarship, Writing
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Post from sabbatical-land 219 days to go: a few interesting links and the limits of learning Swift with Udacity
A lot of stopping and starting this week, to a certain extent connected to the search going on right now in technical writing in my program. I’m not on the committee but I want to know what’s going on with … Continue reading
Posted in MOOCs, Sabbatical II
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Post from sabbatical-land: 224 days to go
There are many fuzzy borders and details in sabbatical-land. I said the beginning of my sabbatical was December 15 because that’s when I turned in my grades and was more or less done with my official EMU duties for the … Continue reading
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Talking Back to the EMU-AAUP About Yik-Yak
Let me begin with three preambles/preemptions. First, I want to apologize to the colleagues I have who are offended by my disagreement with them and the EMU-AAUP about their call for censoring Yik-Yak. I am sure folks will disagree with … Continue reading
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Content and Delivery aren’t the same thing as Teaching and Education (or a few misc. thoughts on recent MOOC readings)
No point in pretending that I was super-duper productive during the first official week of the sabbatical, but I did do some stuff/some reading, which I’m writing about/noting here in this post. I have noticed one thing though: I kind … Continue reading
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“Jay Speaks” to “The Intercept:” A few miscellaneous thoughts
If you were a fan of the recent podcast Serial, you really need to read the three part series “Jay Speaks,” a three part interview with the Jay in the Serial show, Jay Wilds, conducted by Natasha Vargas-Cooper in The Intercept. The link I have … Continue reading
Posted in Podcasts, Reading, Social Networks
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When it comes to Education and Technology, “Efficiency” is not the point
One of my goals (one of many, far too many, goals) during the sabbatical is to post more here– probably still mostly about higher ed and MOOCs, but hopefully other stuff too. I think it would be a good idea … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Blogging about blogging, Family, MOOCs, Reading, Sabbatical II
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Ungrouping Groups, pros and cons (and other reflections on Fall 2014 teaching)
Normally at this time of year, during the holidaze on some family visit (now at the inlaws and later at my side of the family), I’m finishing the planning for the next semester’s classes and reflecting a bit on the … Continue reading
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“MOOCs” by Jonathan Haber: a review and more sabbatical anxiety
The main anxiety I have about my sabbatical project on MOOCs is the quickly approaching irrelevance of this work thanks to the passing of time and already published/in the pipeline books. I could see this working against me in two different and competing ways. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, MOOCs, Reading, Sabbatical II, Scholarship
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