At my school, fall semester classes end on December 10, with exams to follow the next Monday.  And that can only mean one thing: I am so far behind on grading that I’m a little nervous about looking my students in the eyes. At such moments, I’m reminded of advice that a colleague gave me ten or eleven years ago, back when I was teaching for the first time: If you’re late getting papers back, announce to the class that you’re done grading, but that you can’t return the papers yet because you’..   show all text

Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message. Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation about the implications of turning the backchannel into part of the frontchannel. In the last week, I've seen all sorts of blog posts and tweets and news articles about what went down. At this point, the sting has worn off and I feel that it would be responsible to offer my own perspective of what happened. First, context. Web2..   show all text