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...