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BRCC Broken Record

By ~LS~ On February 27, 2010 · Add Comment · In I have to work?, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Work Sucks

On impulse, I searched my blog for all references to BRCC. The search was actually motivated by a desire to see how badly I was trashing my place of employment. As it turns out, not so bad. What I noticed, though, is a broken record rant and so I’ve decided I need to do something about this.

My perpetual rant is a complaint about a particular set of behaviors common to many BRCC students, specifically absenteeism and the failure to turn in work. It’s obvious to me after reviewing my posts that I cannot wrap my brain around this problem. I’ve tried to be proactive about it but my solutions produce epic fails.

Last semester I had a particularly problematic class. (I got barely a 3.0 in my evals from that class, incidentally, my lowest evar). It was so difficult to manage that I even posted on the Read Full Article →

Link-o-mania – More to Read

By ~LS~ On February 26, 2010 · Add Comment · In Link-o-mania and tagged Tagged With: Obligatory Links

1. Tim Wise on the word nigger/nigga — I love Tim Wise. I think he’s smart and he nails stuff on race in a way that I really like. In this youtube clip he explains why white people shouldn’t use “the N-word.” Its probably one of the best, most teachable explanations I’ve heard. Disclaimer: Wise posted this link a couple weeks ago and I just forgot to add it to the list.

2. Our avatars, our projected selves — A Jezebel bit about how men respond to female avatars and a discussion of racism and sexism in SL. Rather predictable, I thought, but still something to talk about. What I do find humorous is a mistake made regarding the percentage of sexual content in SL. A blogger inaccurately cites another writer’s claim that 40 percent of the folks come to SL looking for sexual [...]

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Same as it ever was – Random facts about today

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Silliness

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Pornification

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, For Wordies, Generations, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, Sexism

Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.

But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different way than the typical use of the term as a comment on the how advertising borrows heavily from porn’s tropes and porn itself has infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. I’m [...]

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Letting the days go by – Overwhelmed

By ~LS~ On February 23, 2010 · Add Comment · In I have to work?, The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Work Sucks

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Eggsperts and the production of knowledge

By ~LS~ On February 21, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Pedagogy, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Information Literacy, Public Speaking, Rhetoric, Speech, Teaching Activities, Teaching Speech, Technoculture

My students got me. For the first time in a long time, they actually got me. It took me a few days to realize this. I think it is a good sign that things are going well this semester. Let me explain what happened and then I will say how I was “got.”

I turned my quest about how to peel a hard-boiled egg into a homework assignment for public speaking. I gave the students the list of the sources that I consulted and told them to determine the best way to peel an egg from those sources. The point of the assignment was to learn to think critically about internet sources and their credibility. We talked primarily about two things: you can’t stop at the first hits you get from a Google search and you can’t take a site’s credibility at surface level. Standard stuff.

A colleague who [...]

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