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One of my goals for 2020 was to read more. I read about two hours each night, and I read 45 books altogether. I read mostly popular non-fiction books about personal productivity, business management, education, and a few novels I had on my bookshelf for a long time. In this blog post, I summarize the
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An overview of what educators can expect from the Biden Administration.
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Some reflections after two years. In seventh or eighth grade, I hand-wrote “Dear Reader” articles during study hall. These page-long articles were modeled on newspaper op-eds like the “Dear Abbey” column. I never published these anywhere, and I don’t think I ever showed them to anyone, but I was interested in writing, and I believed
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Decision-making is one of the most important responsibilities of a leader. According to Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive, it is the quality of decisions that sets one leader apart from another. If his/her decisions bring benefits for employees, customers, and shareholders, the leader is considered effective and promising, and he/she is very valuable to the
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The “Byronic hero” is a character type that appeared in Lord Byron’s poetry between 1812 and 1819, and it influenced literary characters throughout the 19th century. In this post, I will describe the Byronic hero and its legacy, and I will argue that it influenced David Ball’s depiction of the Tuareg in his novel Empires
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Image analysis is the process of creating meaning out of an image. The viewer examines components of the image – such as subject, color, placement – and makes a conclusion about the “dominant impression” or overall idea or mood the image is portraying. In my previous post, I showed how an image can be analyzed
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Image analysis is the process of creating meaning out of an image. The viewer examines components of the image – such as subject, color, placement – and makes a conclusion about the “dominant impression” or overall idea or mood the image is portraying. I taught image analysis in my writing courses, and students really enjoyed
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With the recent global pandemic, higher education saw a sudden shift to online teaching and learning in all grade levels from Kindergarten to graduate and professional schools. We were no longer concerned about teaching platforms, or having the adequate training for staff and faculty to take on the new role as virtual educators, but rather
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In my Ph.D. program, I wrote an essay about Lord Byron’s Don Juan. (I also wrote about Don Juan as part of my dissertation on 19th-century Romantic drama and the Victorian theater – click on the link to read it.) In the essay, I cited Guinn Batten’s ideas about avoiding endings to analyze Byron’s writing
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In The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawandi (surgeon, writer, and public health researcher) describes how checklists have improved safety and success in airplane flights, building construction, and medicine. Checklists have proved useful in completing both simple tasks and also complex processes. In this post, I describe the power of the checklist, and I brainstorm how checklists
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