Why We Don’t Know How to Use Google Glass: A Case of Conceptual Modeling

My awesome advisor Dr. Ann Hill Duin brought to my attention this afternoon a quick entry from Penn State's Teaching with Technology blog that discusses how wearables might change web design. While the "One thing, in one moment" observation about Google Glass's affordances is indubitably intriguing, I was struck by the opening of the piece: … Continue reading Why We Don’t Know How to Use Google Glass: A Case of Conceptual Modeling

The Rhetoric and Design of Course Syllabus

It's that time of the year when professors and instructors squeeze their brains and put together their hopefully-comprehensible course syllabi for respective classes. As I enter my fourth semester of teaching a freshman-writing course, I realize there's a constant urge to put more and more into my syllabus: maybe I should tell my students not … Continue reading The Rhetoric and Design of Course Syllabus