…to Clancy Ratliff, Jonathan Goodwin, and the brand-new Mr. Henry C. Goodwin.
Babies are cool.
Edit: Flickr pix.

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The dissertation blog launches December 21, just before I take off for Christmas. To all of you cunning little critters who have already found it, rest assured that it will be better next Friday, and there will be much pomp and circumstance at the launch.
And to those who clicked the link… you didn’t think I [...]

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So, while my transplanted Oregonian friends and I wait patiently to become musically talented, what can we do in the meantime? Something easier. PJ has done film and video production. AJ has worked with clothes. And me? Well, I’m excellent at planning and taking notes. And we all got solid Bs in undergrad theater.
So why [...]

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Well, it’s back to the grind in a few days. UNH gets a late start: September 4. But I’m a busy little beaver already. Here’s a detailed view of my upcoming year:

Dissertation. Obviously, this is job 1. Succinctly, my dissertation focuses on student self-assessment in writing courses. Less succinctly, it focuses on the complex learning [...]

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Next semester, in Creative Nonfiction, I’d like to work with my students to create an online creative nonfiction magazine, starting with blogs in Wordpress Multiuser and eventually transitioning into a blog/magazine hybrid format.
Now, I tried this whole online magazine thing once before, and it didn’t work quite as well as I wanted, due to admittedly [...]

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