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By ~LS~ On April 28, 2008 · Add Comment · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Race

Gratitudes

By ~LS~ On April 25, 2008 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Obligatory Links, Threes

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Editorial vs. Article — Can You Tell the Difference?

By ~LS~ On April 25, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: Pedagogy, Politics, Teaching

I was very disappointed in my public speaking classes this week. I asked students to bring in an editorial from a newspaper. More than half my students didn’t know what an editorial was or where to find it. What kind of education system do we have in this state? When students can’t tell the difference between an editorial and a news article, I get really scared. And I’m not talking about the more sophisticated position of “there’s no such thing as information; all information is perspectival.” I am continually floored by the things I learn about my students. No wonder I struggle to meet them at their level. They are lacking in so many basics. Sometimes I get really depressed.

Today was a good day, though. One of my two public speaking classes really got Toulmin’s model for breaking down arguments. That was exciting for me.

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What does 30 mean in Journalism?

By ~LS~ On April 14, 2008 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, I have to work? and tagged Tagged With: Trivia

I was reading The Advocate online the morning and I saw that one of their editorials ended with a -30-. That’s unusual. Usually the -30- gets edited out before the article goes to press or gets loaded up online. It made me nostalgic for my journalism days. I don’t think my journalism teachers ever told me exactly why you’re supposed to end an article with -30-. So, using the handy dandy internet, I looked it up and found this nifty article from the American Journalism Review. Apparently no one really knows how the tradition got started and what it symbolizes, but there are some neat speculations. Read it for yourself!

In other news, I went to the Southern States Communication Association conference in Savannah, Georgia the week before last. It was fun to meet up with old friends, former professors, and former students. It was also awkward because of [...]

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More on Ireland

By ~LS~ On April 11, 2008 · Add Comment · In Travel and tagged Tagged With: Ireland Trip, Travel

Some of the key sites we saw in Dublin include the Guinness Storehouse, which was a fairly fantastic place. As expected, it walks the tourist through the stages of making guinness. There is a taste-test room where you can get a shot of guinness and then there is a rooftop bar filled with tourists drinking the brew. From the 360 degree room of the bar, you can see just about every little bit of Dublin and then some beyond.

We also saw the Book of Kells at Trinity College, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and Christ Church. Christ Church had a huge collection of loot in the basement (crypt), which was farily impressive. They were worth the entry fees.

One day we took the DART (which is the mass transit train system) up and down the coast in the suburbs of Dublin and the smaller surrounding areas. We [...]

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