Summertime mantra, or remembering why we do what we do
As we get close to a month away from classes starting again at UMW, I am working (as I often do in this months long in-between space of spring and…
On Not Banning Laptops in the Classroom
This post has been percolating for a while as a series of op-ed pieces and studies announcing that handwriting is better for learning or that laptops or other devices are ineffective…
An Amazing Life
The last few days have been very difficult for the UMW community. It’s been a turbulent semester, but the news late last week that one of our students had been…
The spookiest – and workiest – month
October is the spookiest month of the year. It’s also, for senior HISP students and yours truly, a very challenging and busy month. Every fall, I teach HISP405, arguably the…
Getting the LEGO collection to work
In the five months since the acquisition of the LEGO collection, rechristened the MBL (mobile build lab), I’ve been pretty busy with a number of projects. Still, I’ve started putting…
