Procrastadabbler

Ruminations about life, teaching, literacy, research, and anything else I can think of when I am procrastinating

Break-down of the public & private

May 25th, 2008 · No Comments

A few years ago I read Ben Agger’s books on Fast Capitalism. One of the arguments he makes is that the Internet has brought about the breakdown of the line between the public and the private.  In today’s NYTimes Magazine there is an article that captures that phenomenon. It is a column by Emily Gould [...]

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The Learning Curve

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

I should be working on an article, but instead I’ve been living up to the name of this blog and procrastinating by trying to figure out the different functions in edublogs. I’m a teensy bit frustrated right now. This blog space contains a many more features than blogger, but it’s also much harder to use. [...]

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Why the migration?

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve migrated my blog to edublog for several reasons. I had no problems with blogger. In fact I had become rather attached to it. But a while ago I discovered edublogs and set up a blog for my class within it. As I’ve poked around, I’ve discovered it has some functionalities that I believe will [...]

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