Editing reviews
I’ve finally had a chance to go back to several in-pipeline reviews for the H-Net history of education e-mail list. It’s not a mess, but the project got the short end of this semester, combined with some difficulties during the semester in the review process itself.
Technology
I am both a technology user and a technology skeptic. I’ve just created my fourth (or maybe fifth?) weblog/journal (this here thing), imported entries from my prior work journals, and am likely to buy the nifty quasi-laptop I’m evaluating when the month is over.
Sabbatical proposal
Over the rest of break, I’ll be writing a sabbatical proposal for a book on academic freedom, using USF’s controversy over the firing of Sami Al-Arian as one of several cases of academic-freedom controversies since September 11, 2001.
Experimentation
And here we go with a bit of blogging as professional communication. In large part, I’ll experiment with this interface as a way to establish a research community.
Poking away
By Sherman Dorn on December 28, 2003
Sometimes there are huge strides or finishing points in projects, and at other times just wading and getting some work done is important. Today is one of those days: a Sunday, when there are loads of other things going on. So I’m poking away at various things, from syllabi to a proposal to a recommendation […]
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