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Caribbean Frost
In the honors class I’m teaching, I’m trying some without-a-net activities each week to connect technology with social and cultural history. One recent week, I asked students to describe the aesthetics of everyday objects. In a plurality of cases, students discussed the commercial choices involved in consumer-product design–i.e., that the aesthetics are shaped as part […]
Please tell me it’s August or November
What is possibly worse than being sick in a temperate-climate February is being sick in early October when the temperatures are in the upper 80s outside and when you know part of the reason why you’re not well yet is because you drove to another city 2 hours away three times in the last two […]
If I had a million hours
My life this week brings the Barenaked Ladies song to mind: Watching nervously over the state budget situation and engaging in various tasks around that Finishing and submitting my promotion portfolio Assigning and circulating manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives… and receiving a bunch of yes and no responses that require some individual attention (without […]
Unable to celebrate tomorrow
Tomorow’s my long day this semester, which is darned unfortunately, because otherwise I’d be worshipping the 18th letter of the alphabet for Talk Like a Pirate Day (song) (lyrics). I’m sure that there’s a good education policy joke in there somewhere, but it’s too late for my brain to figure it out.
I am not
SpockShermBy Sherman Dorn on October 15, 2007
Twice in the last day, people who know me a little but are not particularly close have called me “Sherm.” This occasionally happens both face-to-face and on e-mail, but I’m wondering if others take slight name mangling as a subtle signal about interlocutors. (Others misspell my last name, especially customer-service folks who find it hard […]
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