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Professors’ preoccupations – grading

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Gina Barreca over at Brainstorm listed six ways to make grading easier, and immediately I was hooked. Like any kind of workers, profs love to talk about better ways to do the key tasks of the field. I had so … Continue reading →

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Thus I refute Zeno (sort of)

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Pat Bowne

As of 7:35 am, everything is graded and all grades posted to moodle! At 8:10 am, I’ll give the next quiz… TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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Plot noodling – teaching magic

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Well, nobody was intrigued by my previous post about the Zoomancy faculty’s brilliant idea of having brownies grade papers for them. But I will persist, as grading and teaching issues are on my mind at the end of the semester. … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I may be jumping the gun here, but I think I’ll survive the spring semester! In which case, I will need something to read in the summer, and I’ve finished all the issues of Skip•Beat!, so I need suggestions. Of … Continue reading →

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College Girl Literature – does it matter?

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Pat Bowne

My new fave blog, Geekachicas, posted last year on College Girl Literature and recommended some of my favorite books. The thing that made me uneasy, though, was that these were my favorite books quite a while before I entered college.  … Continue reading →

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Ferocious Critques ‘r Us

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I just wrote the ending to another novel on Sunday night — mainly because it had to go out to my critique group.  I write bad endings.  Really horrible endings.  The first ending to everything I’ve ever written has been … Continue reading →

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Magical Knitting; Wicked Stitches

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Pat Bowne

by Julia Fenwick, Arcane Arts Museum The last time knitting was in vogue, magicians weren’t interested in it.  The pilled sweaters and bulky ponchos of our youth certainly had nothing magical about them.  But now it’s the information age, and … Continue reading →

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Why Your Diet Didn’t Work

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Pat Bowne

From the Royal Academy Archives Ten years ago it was fashionable in some circles to assert that so-called ‘reality’ was merely consensus on the part of the people who supposedly defined it for us all – scientists.  Of course, anyone … Continue reading →

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Hiding out

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I was poking around over at the University of Venus and found a discussion about where faculty ‘hid’ on campus, when they needed to get some work done without interruption. On my current campus, I don’t have a hideyhole. The discussion … Continue reading →

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