Author: Steve
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COVID 19 isn’t killing the University, bad Stories Are
It seems that what COVID 19 won’t eliminate in terms of higher education, Google will. The recent announcement that Google will offer certificate training in technology jobs is not surprising. What is scary about the recent announcement is that Google will accept certificate training – basically those “badges” on Linked In – as the equivalent…
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Teaching Online
Teaching online this fall like so many others are. I have been interested in this challenge for years, and volunteered to teach public speaking and other courses online about five or six years ago. What I learned then is that students respond very well to being given a list of tasks and dates they need…
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Future Proof
I started this blog to future proof my old, expensive blog at Squarespace. The possibility remains high that I will be leaving New York, so I gotta get ready. Prepare for the chronicle of the last days of a rhetoric professor who might soon become something else! But since words are always changing with situation…
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Public Speaking Will Not Bend. Why?
Why should an online course strive to match up with the classroom experience? The classroom experience is an accident of historical, economic, and technological forces that made it the only game in town. But we learn all the time from a myriad of ways. Why are we not exploring that in terms of online? Is…
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Why Argument is Good for Us
Arguing is hard. Arguing is frustrating. And arguing is essential for our political health. If you haven’t been running, or to the gym in a while, during that first workout or first run you want to quit. You are frustrated, exhausted, and suffering. You start to discount what you are doing as valuable. Does this…
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Summer Potential
The summer always starts with this overwhelming, absolute feeling of potential, like there’s just tons of open space ready for development. And so much less of it is needed for recovery as it used to be, when I was doing debate full time and when I was teaching high school all those years ago. So…
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Being Wary of Debate Champions, Championships, and Debaters
Just read the Financial Times piece “What the Rise of the Debating Champion Tells us about the World” Sadly, it’s super locked down and paywalled, and not even my university can get me a good link to it. So if you click that link be warned – that’s all you are going to get unless…
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Two Rhetorical Definitions of Protest
I know that I make a lot of promises on this blog for multi-part series of things, and I’ve left two of them incomplete, but today I have been trying to work through the definition question of what a protest is. Since I’m a rhetorician, my definitions start with two very basic explorations around the…
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Is This the Time for Persuasion?
One of the commitments that I have that’s hard for me to shake is the idea that everyone can change their mind given the right amount of time, the right place, and the right conversation with the right person. There are so many factors involved here that it might be easier to just say, “It…
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What Will Broadway Theater Look Like after the Quarantine?
I think that many media companies will not be able to resist the symbolic value of owning a Broadway theater. Get ready for the Netflix theater, the Amazon theater, the Epic Games theater, the Dreamworks theater, and on and on. All will run live theater shows like Fortnite and Trolls World Tour as sort of…
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