A Piece of Scarf I’ve made you a piece of scarf. Yes, a piece of scarf. It’s blue and bluish in a crisscross kind of pattern I’ve just learned called a basket weave. Except it’s not a basket and I didn’t weave it. It’s a piece of scarf. Quite striking actually, interesting at the very … Continue reading Journal Leaks →
This blog hasn’t been much about me being an academic, or even an educator. That dominated my first blog, fresh off a year on the tenure-track, but now (at first) underemployed with two kids under the age of two in the house, and then as a contingent faculty member, still holding out hope that I…
I am often asked to talk/write about collaboration, and I am now in the process of writing an afterword for a book about collaboration virtually. I remembered this piece Sean Michael Morris invited me to contribute to #DigiWriMo (Digital Writing … Continue reading →
This is a personal story I wrote as homework for a workshop I’m taking this week, and I need to present it next time. I hope I can read it in 3 minutes, but I may have to cut some … Continue reading →
I dreamt of you before you were born. I wished for you before you were conceived. I loved you before you even existed. I fell in love with the idea of you before I ever saw you. I missed you … Continue reading →
The Wrong Feelings If I were looking for a title I might choose The Wrong Feelings. The wrong feelings, you know, one of these feelings is not like the others… Or can you see which feeling does not belong? Child’s play essentially / so easy to spot because of course THEY ARE THE WRONG FEELINGS … Continue reading 3 Unfinished Coming Home/After Work Poems →
Something I’ve perhaps forgotten about having a personal blog is that it can be fully what I want it to be. I can write what I want and need to write about. I don’t require an outside prompt or a random deadline. This is my space, for my thoughts, at any given time. This has … Continue reading Unload. →
I’d like to share some good news. Even to kvell a little. My most recent book, Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education, appeared from Johns Hopkins University Press over the 2019-2020 winter. It got some good notices until March, … Continue reading →
Reading is so often about searching, whether we realize it or not. An excitement, a secret revealed, a worry, a fulfillment – we don’t always know what it is we’ll get, but when it comes, we know it and recognize it as ours. This is for me. We feel seen, realize we’re not the only … Continue reading Boxes of Thought →
I have been waiting for this moment for SO SO SO LONG. This labor of love that I worked on alongside Rajiv Jhangiani, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz and Robin DeRosa, which centers voices from the margins on open education, a … Continue reading →
This past winter my most recent book, Academia Next, appeared in print and ebook formats. Reactions have been fascinating and gratifying so far. Now I’d like to share a way of getting the book for cheap! This pleases me as … Continue reading →
One of the things I love about my current job is teaching in our Learning, Design, and Technology MA program. Not only are the students brilliant, but I get to teach about Domains and creating their professional digital identity through their final portfolio and beyond. I really enjoy working with the students on helping them…
How might we decolonize time? I flippantly wrote in the chat yesterday “we need to decolonize time”, but a participant asked me to elaborate on it further, and this made me think that maybe this would be a good thought … Continue reading →
I am very proud of this work I did with Daniela Gachago and Nicola Pallitt (thank you both for inviting me to be part of this team!). I am proud of how we used collaborative autoethnography to help build towards … Continue reading →
This week I’m doing several things with the Chronicle of Higher Education. They focus on how college and university faculty roles may change as a result of the coronavirus. First, today the Chronicle published my article “How the Coronavirus Will … Continue reading →
(originally published on chronicle.com Prof Hacker blog, which has been taken down, and republishing now because someone was looking for it on Twitter). Look at the reference list for your latest few articles or presentations. How many of the people … Continue reading →
I’ve just signed a contract with Johns Hopkins University Press for my next book. The complete manuscript of Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Age of Climate Crisis is due in late 2021, aimed at a 2022 publication. The title … Continue reading →
When the choices and rhythms of lives change, as they have in our time, the study of lives becomes an increasing preoccupation. Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 1990 1. My mum Gwen was born in 1921. Tomorrow would have been her birthday, and I…
March 2020 marked the 10-year anniversary of my being online. I spent a lot of January and February writing a year-by-year reflection, as well as curating and creating two self-published […]
Here’s one thing about being a futurist. Sometimes the world confirms one of your scenarios or models, but it’s not something to celebrate. That’s because what you foresaw isn’t good news for anyone when it actually enters the real world. … Continue reading →
