Over the last couple of weeks, there has been some discussion online about the worth of peer review. Is it valuable, or is it antiquated? As an Assistant Professor who goes up for tenure next fall, allow me to contribute my two cents. I guess the real question behind this whole publish or perish (which [...]
Let me start off by saying I don’t think anyone who reads this really cares or should care what my political leanings are. But to be fair, I’ll state that I am a registered Republican who probably needs to re-register as a Libertarian. Yes, I am a conservative. My family has always had something to [...]
To say the last couple of weeks here at effectivedesign have been interesting is an understatement. First of all, I had been reading the posts at Cammy Bean’s Learning Visions blog, and had been linking to them on my weekly post of links. On my Links for 1-26-08 to 2-01-08 post, Cammy commented to me [...]
I just don’t get it. I don’t get what all the hoopla is about this new iPhone. Yeah, it has cool features, but so does every other piece of technology out there. I just think it’s kind of funny all the hoopla out there surrounding it. Do you know why? Because it’s just a phone. [...]
I responded today to a post by David Wiley’s blog. He posted an interesting review about a book on learning styles research–which I have a problem with. I posted a comment outlining how I feel. It will be fun to watch what happens here. This is quite a polarizing topic. To me, it seems to [...]