Category Archives: Technology

Instead of banning laptops, what if we mandated them?

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Steve Krause

Oy. Laptops are evil. Again. This time, it comes from “Leave It in the Bag,” an article in Inside Higher Ed, reporting on a study done by Susan Payne Carter, Kyle Greenberg, and Michael S. Walker, all economists at West Point … Continue reading →

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A “Modest Proposal” Revisited: Adjuncts, First Year Composition, and MOOCs

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Steve Krause

I’m posting this at 37,000 or so feet, on my way back from Italy from an international conference on MOOCs sponsored by the University of Naples (more accurately, Federica WebLearning). Normally, I wouldn’t pay as much as I’m paying for … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, MOOCs, Scholarship, Technology, Writing | 1 Comment

“Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities,” Edited by Jim Ridolfo and Bill Hart-Davidson

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Steve Krause

I’ve blogged about “the Digital Humanities” several times before. Back in 2012, I took some offense at the MLA’s “discovery” of “digital scholarship” because they essentially ignored the work of anyone other than literature scholars– in other words, comp/rhet folks … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Computers and Writing, Digital Humanities, Reading, Sabbatical II, Scholarship Review, Teaching, Technology | 1 Comment

My iPad and “killer apps” for academics, almost four years later

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Steve Krause

I was checking out some of the statistics on hits and such to this site a week or so ago, and one thing that surprised me is that the most popular “all time” post I have on the site (at … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Blogging about blogging, iPad, Technology | 2 Comments

The Comcast Strikes Back

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Steve Krause

Complaining about Comcast is sort of like complaining about death or taxes and about as common.  I know that. But because of a Twitter exchange I had, I thought I’d add to the genre generally and specifically to my latest … Continue reading →

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Enough with the “no laptops in classrooms” already

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Steve Krause

There has been a rash of “turn off the laptop” articles in various places in the educational media, but I think what has pushed me over the edge and motivated this post is Clay Shirky’s “Why I Just Asked My Students … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers and Writing, Teaching, Technology, The Happy Academic | 8 Comments

A Comcast Customer Service Experience: Screwing Up in Reverse

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Steve Krause

We had been having problems with our Comcast/Xfinity/Whatever it’s called internet access for a while, and my calls to Comcast to check on the service were pretty futile (“Is your modem plugged in? Is your computer on? You should unplug … Continue reading →

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In defense of machine grading

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Steve Krause

In defense of machine grading?!?! Well, no, not really. But I thought I’d start a post with a title like that. You know, provocative. There has been a bit of a ruckus on WPA-L for a while now in support of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, technology, etc., Teaching, Technology | 2 Comments

A few miscellaneous comments on online teaching, what I learned about eCollege (again), and MOOCs

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Steve Krause

I’ve been pretty crazy-busy this semester because I took on too much and because there were things I could not refuse. So the blog has been pretty neglected lately, mostly because I’ve been thinking and writing about online stuff and … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Computers, technology, etc., MOOCs, Scholarship, Teaching, Technology | 6 Comments

Five ways EdX can help “the little people:” you know, community colleges, etc.

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Steve Krause

I still have a “what’s good about MOOCs” and/or “MOOCs are textbooks” post in me, but I wanted to post briefly about an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, “5 Ways That edX Could Change Education” that came out a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, MOOCs, Teaching, Technology | 7 Comments