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Joy
Note: The point of this post is Joy’s video at the bottom. The rest is secondary. Reading Dean‘s tweet felt oddly like posthumous eavesdropping on what the living say after we’ve passed. (It’s a...
View ArticleChinese Scholar-Gardens: Research as Performance
Chinese scholar-gardens are incredibly interesting. Just ask Will, a very sharp sophomore in my History of China class. His screencast on the origins and aesthetics of these gardens lays it out for you...
View ArticleHomework: To Flip? or to Toss?
Forays into Flipping I’ve been edublog silent for a long time now, but buzz about the Flipped Classroom actually hit me human-to-human instead of via the interwebs. Teachers in my school are...
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Communist TV 7, Capitalist TV 0
[Note: Skip the politics if you want, but don't miss the TV series at the bottom for pure entertainment.] A big TV censorship controversy is swirling in China these days, and for this American at...
View ArticleComedy, Race, and Louis CK’s Blind Spot
Jokes that educated people can make, and that uneducated people won’t get: It’s interesting to compare this Indian-American guy’s perspective with that of Anglo-American Louie CK — a clearly smart (and...
View ArticleIn Which the Teacher is Sacrificial Poet at His First Poetry Slam
In which this teacher sacrifices himself as “Sacrificial Poet” to warm up and launch the First Annual IASAS Forensics and Debate Poetry Slam. SAS, March 2012. (The “Sacrificial Poet,” I was told, is...
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Eine Kleine Rap Music
Confession: I’m no fan of student rap projects. So how nice to be compelled to send this email “grading” Ashley’s and Rachel’s Russian Revolution rap: Here’s what I’m talking about. On other fronts:...
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