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The academic life

Assistant Professor opening, School Counseling, #USF #scchat

Assistant Professor opening, School Counseling, #USF #scchat

University of South Florida College of Education Announcement of a Faculty Position #7704 Assistant Professor, School Counseling  Department of Psychological and Social Foundations

Why USF is moving from Blackboard to Canvas

Note: the following is intended to be funny. Whether or not it is, to you, it bears a much closer relationship to how I feel about content management systems than it does to the reality of Blackboard 9.1. Or if you are working on a Blackboard campus, you should hope so. Earlier this year, I […]

Tenure application: perspectives from the almost-grizzled reviewer

Yesterday, my college had its first “T&P brown bag” discussion for tenure-earning faculty (tenure-earning being the local equivalent of tenure-track outside Florida). My teaching schedule conflicts with the discussion time, but I had been asked to be a participant as a former member of the college’s tenure and promotion committee. While or perhaps because tenured […]

Non-hurricane day

What happens when there is a hurricane day at the start of a semester? I know part of the answer, and we’ll find out the rest of the week.

Universities and MOOCs and zombies

It’s the last day of MOOCMOOC, or Hybrid Pedagogy‘s massive open online course about massive open online courses. I was one of 591 registered participants, which made it less massive than the largest lecture classes at universities, yet still larger than any formal class I have ever taken. Several posts from earlier this week were […]