9.11.2009: My Euology for Lawrence Gallagher
Michael Gallagher Today I learned that my uncle Lawrence Gallagher of Youngstown, Ohio, passed away peacefully. My father called to tell me the news. My wife and I shed a few tears,…
Education
President Obama’s Text for Speech to for Back to School Event: 9.08.2009
Below is the text from the speech that President Obama gave today for students returning back to school. Politics aside, this speech is stirring and entirely devoid of anything that…
Nietzsche, Jason Schwartzman, Mozart and Discord: Teaching philsophy/art online
I have been thinking of the seeming limitations of online learning formats for teaching critical thinking, especially critical thinking as it applied to philsophy or the appreciation of art (as…
Primary vs. Secondary Sources in Presentation and Teaching
I get asked this question a lot in my work at a large non-profit academic database: what is the difference between a primary and secondary source? As we move towards…
Educate a Child
I love the way that technology/social networking has radically altered the landscape of many social exchanges online and philanthropic activity is certainly no exception. People are inundated with requests to…
Data for Research (DfR) Quick Use Case Video
This is a quick video outlining some ways in which the new Data for Research dataset service from JSTOR could prove beneficial to researchers. I double dog dare you to…
Teaching as all-encompassing activity: (a)synchronous and omnipresent
“The next generation is responsible for its own soul; a man of genius is responsible to his peers, not to a studio full of uneducated and undisciplined coxcombs.” T.S. Eliot…