Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the teaching revolution!
Michael Gallagher Once again, Sir Ken Robinson brings a lot of wit and poignancy to the discussion involving education reform. “We don’t need an evolution of education, rather a revolution. ” This…
Education
Unlocking Korean research potential with Digital Humanities Resources
With the rise (and, in some cases, fall) of digital humanities programs in North America and Europe (and presumably elsewhere), I have haphazardly looked around to see if Korea had…
Jim Jarmusch on Creativity
This is a quote form filmmaker (and Akron, Ohio native) Jim Jarmusch on the creative process. I think resonates quite well in this participatory, social media kind of world. Creativity…
Village life in Korea circa 1991, Masatake Terauchi (and Google Books)
Since I can’t seem to get enough of archaic and often out of print books on Korea at the turn of the last century, I have another few that I…
Plants and the bizarre career path of a former English teacher
I should come clean and say what might be already obvious. I have no background in botany. I wouldn’t know a lily from an orchid, a weed from grass, an…
Montreal, Quebec Libations, Dim Sum, and Homemade Gravlax
I just returned from a trip to Montreal to see a good friend from my early years in Korea (1998-1999) as well as my wife’s family, many of which live…
Plants, lemurs, Montreal, and poutine
I am going to stop apologizing for not posting more than I have recently. The social media efforts of a work project have been taking whatever fruit my writing output…