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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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Category Archives: Technology
Instead of banning laptops, what if we mandated them?
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
A “Modest Proposal” Revisited: Adjuncts, First Year Composition, and MOOCs
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
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“Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities,” Edited by Jim Ridolfo and Bill Hart-Davidson
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
My iPad and “killer apps” for academics, almost four years later
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
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The Comcast Strikes Back
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
Posted in Life, Technology
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Enough with the “no laptops in classrooms” already
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
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A Comcast Customer Service Experience: Screwing Up in Reverse
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
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
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A few miscellaneous comments on online teaching, what I learned about eCollege (again), and MOOCs
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
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Five ways EdX can help “the little people:” you know, community colleges, etc.
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
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