@dwalbert The best educators I know feel that way — the ever-receding goal post of the kind of teacher one wants to be. For me, just the dialogical exchange, in slow time, is precious and rare enough to hang in there with my many shortcomings.
@dwalbert The best educators I know feel that way — the ever-receding goal post of the kind of teacher one wants to be. For me, just the dialogical exchange, in slow time, is precious and rare enough to hang in there with my many shortcomings.
@bbowman thank you for this! that book holds up, big time (an undergrad recently rec'd it to me!)
@jabel Love seeing this! Goals. Someday.
@7robots Takes me back! And the trays are always a beautiful array (though not always for students, I know).
@KimberlyHirsh Agree, and something especially about the end of semester pileup.
@ayjay Yes, and I guess this is once again what a newsletter-blog combo are for: Which ideas, expressed in which way, get effective traction? Etc. Eventually I will learn to write.
@odd "time flies anyway" is the truest thing. wishing you well!
@ayjay lol yes
@JohnBrady It’s true — the headspace contrast is *so much more out of sync with our other cadences.
@JohnBrady How many people are you in paper correspondence with?
@JohnBrady I love yours! And I see what you mean — we may be in a phase of protective overreach as we crest the wave of big-platform-creep. I just like having exemplars for my students as they start to articulate who they are beyond the strict resume-style site. (Also "omg.lol" goes a long way to preventing taking oneself too seriously <3.)
@trisweb I am 7 years free of this, and so grateful.
@tinyroofnail thank you!
@artkavanagh thanks for this!
@ayjay timely, thanks.
@tinyroofnail Oh wow! I want to know all about this.
@dorsalstream Yeah — I’m pretty allergic to “look” and even “listen.” It’s not an absolute, of course, but the tone is so often inescapably pedantic.
@manton On my list! Giamatti in his prime.
@drewbelf <3
@tinyroofnail yes, agree (right?!)! I do think I use it in a more benign way, but it’s certainly food for thought — one’s argument should stand on carefully chosen language and phrasing. And I also dislike excessive repetitive language anyway…
@ayjay my heart, yes
@JohnBrady A true public service. Writing him a thank you note.
@drewbelf so good.
@tinyroofnail Thanks for the Barth rec! And lots to think about.
@drewbelf Gonna queue that up, thanks!