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Where is the bureaucracy reenactor crowd?
In the past few months, I have been struggling with how to teach a difficult topic: bureaucracy. It’s not hard to enter the topic with a class; everyone experiences bureaucracy in ways that they can talk about at one level. Generally, I find that students absorb notions of street-level bureaucrats, scripts about “real school,” and […]
Creative Commons and the First Sale Doctrine
To all my readers, Happy New Year! Over at Open Content, David Wiley has a fascinating legal puzzle for us to ponder: does the First Sale doctrine undermine the Creative Commons licensing system? I suspect the answer is no from a practical basis because the First Sale doctrine only applies to individual copies of works. […]
Grading highs
I have a bunch of odds and ends to finish before submitting grades, but I read two papers this morning that earned very high grades in different ways. I’ll explain more after I’m done, but it was a great way to start the week. The rest of this week is for grading, EPAA stuff (yes, […]
Critical thinking and cultural work
I have another hour or so of work to do before bed, out of a combination of weekend-long computer woes, an uncooperative body, scheduling near-misses, and a delayed plane. But as a result of Michael Bérubé’s visit this week, I’ve been thinking about What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? and his discussion of his classes. […]
Waiting for one last paper… and panicking about the end of summer
I’m almost at the end of reading/grading for my summer class. I have one student’s paper left to receive, and then I’ll be done. In the meantime, I’ll upload the rest of the material in a secure part of Blackboard hidden from students for the moment and then work on an article manuscript that should […]