Herein ends the original, the classic, I suppose, bgblogging blog. I'm moving out and over to a new Wordpress bgblogging, where you'll find all the...

I know that I have been hammering away about grading in the new classroom, student responsibility, and faculty resisting substantive change to the way they...

The first thing our architect did when designing our house was ask each of us to write a narrative about our relationship to space--what...

In spite of my heritage, I don't really celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Green beer is a bit much-- they also dye the Liffey green,...

Heart and mind swell with memories of my father. He'd be ninety today and pretty pleased about that. (Of course he was aiming for...

I can't get past the lack of time and space for reflection and creativity this semester, how detrimental it is to reel from one...

As much as I love my students, I scolded them soundly today. I don't know why I was so shocked when over half said...

How many creative writing courses include multimedia writing? Hypertext writing? How many creative writing/English departments (in small liberal arts colleges, at least) include multimedia writing...

"Hell is the place where nothing connects." T.S. Eliot (by way of George Siemens) "If you do not speak up when it matters, when would...

These past few days I have found my head in three places at once: here in San Antonio at Educause's ELI conference (an event...

More anon on ELI and all the terrific people and ideas--my wee contribution to the Fear 2.0 digidrama:...

In case you think I've been on a cruise, or pulling back from blogging, I want to assure anyone who actually reads bgblogging that I...

Teaching within the compressed schedule of our four-week January Term is both one of my deepest teaching delights and most harrowing teaching experiences. To...

Once again we arrive at the cusp,an in-between-ness I'm drawn to and have written about several times. The winter solstice is that wonderfully unsettling moment...

"When someone is trying to make something that doesn't exist yet, for which there is no clear template, it's going to look unfamiliar, and it's...

With two and a half weeks left of this semester, I can now begin to see the full figure of my first-year seminar, this...

Two nights ago four young deer made their way into my flower garden, the same four deer, I am certain, that we have watched grow...

This is the most challenging course I have ever taught because I'm asking my students--right from their first days as undergraduates-- in large part...

My students have just completed image-only responses to Bill McKibben's Wandering Home, a book chronicling his walk from his home in Ripton, Vermont to his...

Between Twitter satisfying my need to reach out within my blogging community, a quick trip to George Mason University for a workshop/conversation, several wiki and...

Sifting through my archives, I see that not only do I like the cusps of things, the edges, the beginnings and endings, the transitions, I...

I've been away from the blog this summer, intentionally, letting my thoughts about teaching & learning drift and disperse or return and build as I...

In the old, pre-blogging days, prepping for a new course meant, primarily, doing a lot of reading and then thinking about sequencing assignments for students...

Of course, as soon as I announce a new blog for experiments as a way to re-inspire me as teacher and edublogger, I'm running back...

Lately we've had a slew of those listless pre-storm afternoons when even the dog doesn't want to go out and the cats can't be bothered...

Tonight, the eve before the summer solstice, the last day of spring, gives me pause, and I feel moved to write a kind of post...

Chinese Peony One of my professors in college, I recall, an art history professor, would move into class by dimming the lights, leaning against...

Shop Windows in New York City Lately I've been referring to myself as a slow-blogger, taking inspiration from the slow food movement. I've also...

I've got another blogpost brewing about Faculty Academy itself (right now I am teetering between slow-blogging and just plain old blogging slow). What a...

It's the end of the first, remarkable day at University of Mary Washington's Faculty Academy 2007. Hearing Gardner Campbell, Alan Levine, Laura Blankenship, Steve Greenlaw...