Archives for the Month of October, 2010

Social Media and Student-Instructor Relationships

This post tees off of one begun by Melanie Booth over on Prattlenog, where she asked her fellow members of the academic community for their perspective on the boundaries and norms of connecting with students via social media. 
Melanie’s question generated a fairly good mumber of responses, but a slight majority of them displayed a trend [...]

Trimet: Time for some sobriety

Over the last year or so — and especially lately — there’s been a lot of rhetoric tossed around over TriMet. Between a bad editorial, a near-miss on a labor action, and lots of Internet drama, I think it’s time for some cooler heads to prevail.
1.) The Oregonian’s editorial against measure 26-119. As of [...]