Aug 9Postponing Barbieon avoidance, value-driven decisions, and fall term in #HigherEd I recently decided to take a pass on heading to the theater to watch Barbie. Initially, my contrary nature was at play here. Generally speaking, if everyone is doing something, I’ll pass. But then my 14yo son kept casually mentioning that…Higher Education5 min readHigher Education5 min read
Dec 15, 2022Raise Your Hand. Send the Email.A few thoughts on ChatGPT Have you heard about ChatGPT? (I’m no expert on AI. I’m actually scared of robots due to Battlestar Galactica…amazing sci-fi, watch if you haven’t.) It’s an AI that can pretty much respond to any writing prompt. Tell it to write a three-paragraph review of Battlestar…AI3 min readAI3 min read
Dec 1, 2022The Desire Path of Empty Classroomsthoughts on the state of #HigherEd at the end of the fall ’22 term Today is December 1, 2022, and December 1, 2019 was three years ago. Three years. What have we learned, #HigherEd? Where will we be three years from now? I’ve been seeing some trending posts on Twitter…Higher Education4 min readHigher Education4 min read
Nov 4, 2022Mutual Aid in Higher EdThoughts and feels on how we might work, teach, and live in this volatile era I’ve taught and worked in higher education for eighteen years. This, this era, feels different. Despair feels like the sentence and hope some weaker form of punctuation we only see occasionally. …Higher Education5 min readHigher Education5 min read
Oct 31, 2022Systems Aren’t ScaryOn this Halloween and the last day of ADHD Awareness Month, I’m here to make a case for systems, structure, and routines. CW: suicide, death, trauma Last week, on a slightly less scary version of Twitter, I shared a post about the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. I recognize…Adhd10 min readAdhd10 min read
Oct 13, 2022Imagine Higher EdIn June 2022, as part of the #MYFest22 festival offered through Equity Unbound, I led a workshop called Intro to Emergent Strategy based on the teachings of adrienne maree brown. brown argues that we are living within someone else’s imagination, their idea of what the world should be, and that…Higher Education8 min readHigher Education8 min read
Aug 17, 2022Event Planning in Higher Ed in Our Volatile EraSome thoughts on designing, leading, attending, and planning for events If you’d have told spring of 2020 me that I would ever be nostalgic for any aspect of the early pandemic days, my response would’ve been: And yet…Higher Education4 min readHigher Education4 min read
Jun 27, 2022Lines in the SandHas Course Hero crossed yours yet? Many of us have been imploring people to wake up to the dangers of Course Hero. We have told you, repeatedly, about how Course Hero exploits students, our most marginalized and vulnerable students. …Higher Education2 min readHigher Education2 min read
Mar 14, 2022How to Zoom ChatThe Zoom chat is a tremendous teaching tool. So why aren’t more educators and facilitators using it? I’ve been teaching and facilitating in Zoom since pre-COVID times, and the Zoom chat is one of my all-time favorite teaching tools. And yet, here we are, two years into the rise of…Higher Education7 min readHigher Education7 min read
Published inBootcamp·Mar 2, 2022Questions about conferencesWe can all get better at asking better questions to create accessible #HigherEd conferences for all learners. A few years ago, I flew home on a plane from Florida after being forced to cancel an in-person speaking engagement at the very last minute. …Higher Education3 min readHigher Education3 min read
