Xy is officially looking for work. She’s been teaching over in Algiers for six years, pretty much continuously, with a little interruption for that storm…
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Xy is officially looking for work. She’s been teaching over in Algiers for six years, pretty much continuously, with a little interruption for that storm…
Classes ended yesterday. Final exams begin tomorrow. But today is nothing. It’s Quiet Day here at the University. Apparently at other schools this is called…
Once upon a time, there was a used car lot next to the University. Now it’s a parking lot for the University faculty and staff.…
This picture illustrates why I can never take a sick day. I stayed home to nurse a cold a couple months back. In my absence,…
After a month of cajoling on my part, I’m happy to report my co-worker Nancy Hampton has finally launched the Xavier Library Blog. Please check…
We are gearing up for the Beyond Jena forum on Saturday. We’ll be closing registration soon, but there is still a little room left, so…
I’m back at work today after a good twelve day break. It was nice being home and spending more time with the girl, who is…
As of this moment, a bit of doggerel I wrote last year is the number one search result in Google for “christmas eve poem.” (Update:…
I really don’t mind a long convalescence. It’s the initial descent that I hate. Anyway, I’m on the upswing now. Still a little unsteady but…
I’ve been working over the past few months to get a new podcast launched here at work, and I think we’ve finally gotten to the point of promoting it. Here’s our formal announcement, more comments follow.
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) at Xavier University of Louisiana is pleased to announce the official launch of our new podcast series, Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else.
Each episode is a conversation with a teacher in higher education, in which we examine how teaching intersects with a diverse range of topics. So far we have completed four episodes and touched on issues relating to technology, service learning, master teachers and dealing with personal problems of students. But we’re just getting started, and hope to continue branching out and exploring new topics with each episode. It’s a fresh and personal approach to faculty development that will appeal to anyone who teaches at the college level, regardless of discipline or rank.
The series is produced by Bart Everson, Media Artist at CAT. Dr. Elizabeth Yost Hammer is the Director of CAT and host of the show.
For more information, and to listen to the show, please visit our website at cat.xula.edu/podcast
The weather has been a bit on the cold side this week, by which I mean highs in the 60s. It was in the 60s…
Last Friday I noticed a new sculpture in the quad. Then I saw another, not too far away. What’s going on here? Could it be…
I was talking to Howie and he shared this passage with me: Education is now prized not because the culture values truth and wisdom, or…
I first heard the phrase “digital natives” at the New Media Consortium’s 2007 Regional Conference. I enjoyed the conference a great deal and found the…
I got Iked on my bike this morning. I was partway to work, and I noticed the sky was getting dark — really dark. Hope…
I wanted to ask a question of the Education Panel at Rising Tide III, but time ran out and the question went unasked. So I…
The biggest single thing my department does every year is New Faculty Orientation, which is today. This year we’ve got the biggest crop of new…
Busier than usual; things always get kinda crazy here just before classes begin.