Wednesday’s class was one of those classes that make you glad you’re an educator. Once again, I prove that my greatest strength as a teacher is my ability to outsource and maximize my network. In the early stages of this course there’s no question that students feel overwhelmed. They are introduced to many new concepts and ideas that are pretty...

Doug Johnson’s been thinking again, I thought of this yesterday when attending a presentation by Michael Wesch of The Machine is Using Us fame. (Great presenter and message, BTW). At the end of the keynote, I had an entire page of handwritten notes, which has become unusual for me. Why? My laptop’s battery was dead and the lecture hall had zero electrical...