Regular Expressions, Word, and the Writing Class
Some years ago, when I was moonlighting as a reviewer for EEBO, I learned how to use regular expressions to do more global find/replace searches in xml files--some years after that, it finally occurred to me that I might be able to use this in the writing classroom. Though I'm not sure my students would …
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Teaching Carnival 5.05 (in progress!)
At the end of November, the UC Davis pepper spray fiasco dramatized the intersection of politics, student life, and academia, and several bloggers considered the place of the OWS movement in the classroom. Jay Dolmage thinks--and writes--about how OWS “has been shaped through unique genres of writing and visual rhetoric,” focusing on sousveillance and the …
Oxford conversion of ECCO
Oxford conversion of ECCO texts, freely available as ePUBs! Joy! There's no real finding guide, and you won't get the facsimile pages, but it's a happy day for those of us without institutional access to Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. Use CTRL-F to find authors, titles; download the Firefox ePUB addon for easy viewing.
Teaching Carnival 5.01
ProfHacker surveys some creative approaches to bloated syllabi, and Mary Beth Hertz warns us not to try for superhero status in the new academic year. At Inside Higher Ed, Library Babel Fish weighs in on the bloated syllabus as academic Terms of Service contracts. Billie Hara at ProfHacker inaugurates a new beginning-of-term ritual: "prepare to …
Things I learned while tiling my kitchen solo
I spent a good three days this past month tiling my kitchen backsplash, and I'm not sure as of today whether, given what I know now and a second chance, I would have done it myself or hired someone to do it for me. But, what's done is done! I finished it, and I suppose …
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The Blondin Memorial Trust – Funambulus / Funambule – A Potted History
“The London Spy” (Ned [Edward] Ward) mentions a rope-walker whose ‘Tyburn locks foretold such an unhappy destiny that I was fearful of his falling, lest his hempen pedestal should have catch’d his neck. He commanded the rope to be alter’d according to his mind with such an affected lordliness that, by his imperious deportment, I …
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THATCamp Brownies: The Recipe
This recipe is essentially from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, though I experimented with the additions. It makes between 12 and 24 brownies, depending on how you cut them. Enjoy! 2 oz of baking chocolate, the darker the better. For the chili brownies, I used this Guajillo Mexican Chili Chocolate, and I added a …
How to Regularize Good Discussion Participation
So, I've been thinking about my courses for Fall 2011 (yes, I know, the summer's just started...), and given the energy residue from THATCamp CHNM, I wanted to get some ideas jotted down in a more accessible space than my moleskine. There was a lot of discussion about backchannels this weekend, and while I'm thinking …
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Better Googling – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Better Googling May 23, 2011, 8:00 am By George Williams One of the greatest strengths of the world’s most widely used Internet search engine is also one of its greatest weaknesses: comprehensiveness. For example, a search using the keyword poverty results in almost 90,000,000 results, which is far too many for any individual person to …
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