New Scholarship Available

by Dr Davis on January 5, 2010

The Vatican Reveals Secret Archives, which seems a bit silly since reading pop fiction or seeing the movies would have told you they were there.

However, I think the presentations of some of the papers will offer opportunities for new scholarship. In particular the letter from Mary Queen of Scots and the Ojibwe of Ontario offer some insights not available before.

I like the description of the month of May as “where there is much grass, in the month of the flowers.” Where is there much grass in the month of flowers? Apparently in Ontario…. Yeah. We get our flowers in April.

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How Did You Grade Your Finals?

by Dr Davis on January 5, 2010

Concurring Opinions, several years back, showed pictures of the “throwing them down the stairs method” of grading. It’s a good way to go, if you have 5 minutes and are willing to thrown them individually. If you throw them as a group, those who came in first will be penalized.

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Popular Culture Related Journals

by Dr Davis on January 5, 2010

Popular Culture Association’s Journal of Popular Culture

American Culture Association’s Journal of American Culture

American Studies Association’s American Quarterly

Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-Present)

Popular Culture Association in the South’s Studies in Popular Culture

Popular Culture Association in the South’s Studies in American Culture

Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association’s Southwest Journal of Cultures

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A Saga of Online Teaching

by Dr Davis on January 5, 2010

This starts last summer when I took the Angel Online training and received certification. It was very easy and I was kicking myself for not having done it earlier. Of course, I’d also gone to an in-person training, which made the online one far simpler.

Then I decided I needed to teach an online course. I talked to my boss in November and she was agreeable. So on the schedule I went from two f2f classes to one of each.

Then I went to a second Angel training situation. I was able to figure out how to do most of the stuff that was most necessary.

Then I got busy and did nada. Nothing.

Twenty days from Day 1 and I was panicking.

That is where the saga will pick up.

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