Checking In
It has been quite a while since I blogged here. My life is quite busy, as I am a second tier (my terminology) administrator now, find myself teaching two traditional and one online class, and am helping to create a textbook for basic speech. This last is in response to receiving a grant. Open Educational Resources is very big in the University System of Georgia right now, and my colleagues and I won quite a large grant for this project. It's overwhelming. I have written two speech textbooks before, one in two editions, but now technology has changed so much that the attempt is quite different. Perhaps I will write a good long blog post about this experience. Being so busy, my academic writing has suffered, and that is disappointing to me right now because one of the reasons I pursued a doctorate at this stage in life (graduating in my late 50s) was to do research and write on student learning, adult learning, and faculty development. That sa...