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  • Provencial Cosmopolitanism

    Sorry it’s been a while since I posted, but I hope to regularly add to this now that I’m sort of in a place where I sort of…

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  • “So after two months of running around fifteen or twenty schools, I came to a view I hadn’t seen before, similar to the hard-hat proposition: which is, basically,…

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  • Hey, it’s Way back Monday. Remember when the cool and hip thing to do in your class was to have your class write a Wikipedia entry? I never…

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  • There used to be these old commercials for a (quite good) brand of cereal called Frosted Mini-Wheats. This commercial, as I recall, had a man in a suit…

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  • Adapting ancient rhetorical theory for the contemporary classroom seems like a life-long project for me, for I’m always thinking about it, and reading up on it. The general…

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  • Teaching in the morning is a great way to start the day. Here are a few of the ways that I like to start a class (and it’s…

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