I want to alert you to an excellent series of articles at Inside Higher Education, where Kerry Ann Rockquemore has been writing about academic perfectionism. Many times people get confused because they think that perfectionism is really just a form of striving, being goal-oriented, having ambition, being driven and/or having high expectations for your career. […]
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The politics of education
I’ve had a couple of articles open in my browser for a while now and I thought I should share them. In all the policy debate about education, there are some persistent underlying political assumptions. Being aware of these can help you engage with them directly, and address how those assumptions are driving some of […]
Read More »Getting started using Prezi
In the last post, Melonie Fullick gave a review of Prezi based on her experience of using it for her recent conference presentation. Here are Melonie’s thoughts on the process of learning to use Prezi, along with useful links to help. Prezi is a presentation editor that runs entirely online, rather than as software on […]
Read More »Presentations, articles, and writing to think
Shortly after Congress, Melonie Fullick shared a copy of her presentation. She’d used a new online presentation software called Prezi and I was intrigued with the possibilities. I asked her to write about it for us. In addition to the different visual possibilities and the general need to make presentations less dull, I think there […]
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