{"id":1428,"date":"2008-09-10T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2008-09-10T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T20:28:44","slug":"mostly-bright-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Mostly bright spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miscellaneous thoughts after being on campus for about nine hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s wonderful having a graduate assistant help with preparing manuscripts. I am now several weeks ahead on getting the next article to publication for <a href=\"http:\/\/epaa.asu.edu\">Education Policy Analysis Archives<\/a>, so I can focus the next few Mondays on review-work catchup.<\/li>\n<li>I think I&#8217;m recovering from the cold that struck a few days ago. I need to stay away for a few more days from a friend\/coworker who Does Not Need An Infectious Disease.<\/li>\n<li>Obama&#8217;s education speech in Ohio has irritated Checker Finn, pleased DFERs and AFT President Randi Weingarten, and will probably be the last substantive thing said on education in the campaign.<\/li>\n<li>The online class has begun to slip into a regular routine each week. This is good.<\/li>\n<li>I tried using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polleverywhere.com\">Poll Everywhere<\/a> in my undergrad class yesterday morning. It worked, reasonably, for the few things I wanted it to do. Don&#8217;t worry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretsoltan.com\">Margaret<\/a>: I haven&#8217;t slipped over COMPLETELY to the dark side. Yet.<\/li>\n<li>What did faculty joke about on transitions to administration before Star Wars and &#8220;the Dark Side&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>New Orleans didn&#8217;t need Ike, true. That doesn&#8217;t mean Texas needs it any more.<\/li>\n<li>My nephew&#8217;s bar mitzvah is this Saturday. My daughter may try to visit a college while we&#8217;re there. I&#8217;m not sure my poor brain can handle all that activity on a weekend.<\/li>\n<li>I think I can boil down the change-ESEA list that&#8217;s in my head. Watch out, manifestistas! Or is that manifestoistas? Manifistas? Dang, I need to learn Esperanto to come up with jargon that just trips off the tongue like &#8220;misunderestimate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I <em>still<\/em> like Falstaff as a character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miscellaneous thoughts after being on campus for about nine hours: It&#8217;s wonderful having a graduate assistant help with preparing manuscripts. I am now several weeks ahead on getting the next article to publication for Education Policy Analysis Archives, so I can focus the next few Mondays on review-work catchup. I think I&#8217;m recovering from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-n2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}