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dinosaur comics
One of my favorite resources for teaching Pragmatics in my Introduction to Linguistics class is Dinosaur Comics. In fact, these comics specifically mention Paul Grice (“one of my linguistic heros”)...
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750words.com
One of the pieces of advice given to aspiring writers is “write every day”. I think most serious writers do this — they take it as their job, and sit down and write each and every day whether they feel...
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constructed language project
It’s finals time here at the university. I decided to give my Introduction to Linguistics students their final — technically a third midterm, since it’s not comprehensive — during the last week of...
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final exams and kittens
I recently finished grading my final exams. Sometimes I have really great answers — and by “great”, I mean “hilarious”. Not so much this term. The exams fell into a pretty normal curve, with the answer...
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the haiku
So the other day, I saw a guy walking down the street in a shirt that said: Haikus are easy. But sometimes they don’t make sense. Refrigerator. (Here’s the shirt.) This admittedly amazing shirt has...
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Livemocha mini-tour
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been using Livemocha to learn basic French. I’m pretty pleased with it so far, especially since it’s free , and so I decided to do a little mini-tour of the basic...
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things I have learned from teaching six-week courses
1. Students don’t want to work twice as hard to get their class done twice as fast. 1a. In fact, students want to work half as hard, because it’s a summer class, and those are supposed to be easy,...
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style, bartering, and Auction Hunters
One of the students from my Cross-Cultural communication class sent me this link. First: I’m always happy/impressed when a student sends me something related to a class she or he has taken… after the...
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writing into being
I read a phrase in an article today, cited to Sunden cited to boyd 2007, that in digital networks, with the absence of a body, users are required to “write themselves into being”. I’m not sure of the...
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a MOOC on Open Educational Resources
I recently signed up to take a MOOC — Massively Open Online Course — from Open SUNY called “Locating, Creating, Licensing, and Utilizing Open Educational Resources“. This will be my first experience...
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