Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 2:33AM You can’t replace a hug with a virtual hug. And yet, when you can’t have a hug a virtual hug can mean everything.
COVID-19, online learning, virtual worlds in Digital Media, Education, Politics, personal Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 5:27PM I was on Quora when I came across one of those typical political threads about Donald Trump. I posted the first part of this response there (regarding name calling...OP was upset that someone had called Donald Trump a clown in the reponse), but the last thing I wanted to do was muddy the clarity of that issue by addressing the other issues raised by OP in their response (lies told by people who aren't Trump, especially Schiff). So, here's my full post because I'd like to have it handy for reference if needed.
Friday, April 5, 2019 at 4:13PM Every passage is thus, a place unto itself, a thing that connects, but is also disconnected. Each moment is its own molecule, each transition its own ellipsis...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 1:54PM In my previous blog post on systems of stress I traversed a fair amount of my professional and personal experiences from 2017. I also got into some contentious political topics, especially in relation to higher ed. A casual read of that post might lead you to conclude that I have a fairly narrow belief about the purpose of post-secondary education, and that I’m dismissive of vocational outcomes in higher ed. Nothing could be further from the truth. This post aims to provide a bit of clarification, because this is in truth a complicated topic.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 5:16PM This is a post about individuals and conflict behaviors, but more than that it’s about systems and how they elicit those behaviors. This post gets pretty personal at times, but the intent is not to air my or anyone else’s dirty laundry. The aim instead is to draw on experiences during an extremely difficult time in my life that also became entwined with professional failure, but to look beyond those individual stresses and failures at the bigger picture, and to say something (hopefully useful) about how individuals respond to pressures well outside of their control. Caveat emptor, this post is also very long.
Wisconsin, academia, organizational theory, stress, wipolitics in Academic, Education, Politics, personal 