Weeping Joyously: Dancing Around the World with Matt Harding

One of the biggest and most beautiful internet videos is Where the Hell is Matt Harding? It first appeared on youtube in 2005 and became a “feel good” classic of the genre.
Now Matt Harding has come back with a powerful sequel dated 2008 that is making the internet rounds all over again. There’s a different [...]

Thank you Inside Higher Ed

I’m grateful to Inside Higher Ed for publishing my latest essay, on academic avatars. It’s nice to write something relatively quickly and have it read quickly and responded to so quickly. It’s not like writing articles for peer reviewed journals, which sometimes languish for years before seeing print, or even worse, trying to publish a [...]

Uses of Zoho Creator (online database creation)

I recently stumbled onto the suite of productivity tools put out by Zoho, which include a planner, slide show, chat, mail and word processing program. I was intrigued by Zoho Creator, which enables users to make custom databases for personal or public use, and with blog embedding capabilities. I realize that for serious database users [...]

Adventures in Paperless Grading

At the end of last semester I was faced with a decision. Either I printed out over 500 pages of student papers and take home exams or I graded them paperless, in microsoft word. The thought of slaughtering my printer or my departmental printer was too terrible, so I plunged in and tried to use [...]