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Why do I have green eyes?

~LS~ — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:37:00 +0000

Tomorrow is the last day of summer school. This month in the TBR Summer Institute has been intense and intensive. I had an interesting racialized moment in class yesterday. One of the students, Benjamin, figured out that everyone in class had... Read more

Where’s Neil Postman when you need him?

~LS~ — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:22:35 +0000

I'm contemplating teaching Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death in my Introduction to Humanities class this semester, particularly Chapter 4 ("The Typographic Mind"). I don't feel like scanning the chapter and I couldn't find a pdf or doc... Read more

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

~LS~ — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:08:00 +0000

I decided that I didn't like the way that Julia Wood is handling race in her textbook for Gender and Comm. Actually, well, I decided that years ago. So I'm asking the students to read Peggy MacIntosh's article, "White Privilege." It's very old, but... Read more

Today in my Life

~LS~ — Wed, 03 May 2006 08:17:00 +0000

Today was a busy day in the Sells-Jaros household. Willow took her first driving lesson. Yikes. And I facilitated my first dialogue on race. These are exciting times. * The semester is almost over. I have to grade speeches and then I have to... Read more

The LSU Library

~LS~ — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:04:00 +0000

Right now I am in the LSU library with the Intro to Grad Studies class where the students are being introduced to ...you guessed it... the library. Dun dun dun! In any event, since I have no profound links for this entry, I asked the librarian what... Read more

Ten Tech Gratitudes for 2010

~LS~ — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:52:49 +0000

(In no particular order) 1. Droid I bought my Droid in November 2009 and it has changed how I interact with people, sometime for the worse, but usually for the better. On the one hand, even though I’m a technophile, I really don’t like the... Read more

Teaching in EBRP Schools

~LS~ — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:55:00 +0000

Listening: _The Duchess_ by Fergie Reading: _What Color is your Parachute_ (yes, really) The past two months have been intense and traumatic. The big news is that I quit my job at Park Elementary. I am going back to teach at LSU for a temporary... Read more

Teaching evaluations

~LS~ — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:34:03 +0000

I got my teaching evaluations back yesterday. I have been thinking lately about faculty reviews and teaching evaluations because they are such an issue at school lately. Our student ratings are incorporated in our annual reviews, so the numbers... Read more

Teaching at BRCC

~LS~ — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:10:00 +0000

Reading: Mistral's Kiss, by Laurell K. Hamilton (A guilty pleasure) Listening: Stadium Arcadium, RHCP I've been doing some thinking about what it means to teach at BRCC, which is hard to do without any experience there yet. I can make some... Read more

Students’ sense of entitlement

~LS~ — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:04:00 +0000

An article about contemporary students' sense of entitlement is all over the Canadian papers today. It cites a UC Irvine study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The article discusses how entitled today's students feel. Here are some... Read more