Friday Quick Hits and Varia
It’s a warm late summer day here in North Dakotaland with just a few clouds in the sky to give the sunrise some texture. I survived my first day back teaching. I finally got some writing done. So, it seems like a great morning for some quick hits and varia.
Congratulations to Peter Schultz for getting reaching his goal on Kickstarter. His book, Get Your Greek on will be a boon to any student (or faculty member) heading to Greece on a study tour. (And when Classicists begin to embrace new models for publication, then some kind of change must almost certainly be in the air!).
Larry the Cable Guy visits the Bakken Oil Patch and hangs out at Capital Lodge (a Type 1 camp!).
Kostis Kourelis shares some of his sketches from our recent field season in the Bakken.
Beloit College’s mindset list for the 2016 graduating class. My favorite: “14. There has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles.”
The Medium is part of the new web. Here’s what it does. And here’s a critique.
A really cool, high-resolution aerial photograph of the campus of the University of North Dakota.
Hybrid Pedagogy. It appears that some people are still struggling to wrap their minds about what a MOOC (Massive Open Online Class) does.
Academia.edu has enhanced its analytics so that you can see the location of visitors to our page. My page appears to be very popular in Namibia.
What I’m reading: D Hancox, Utopia and the Valley of Tears: a journal through the Spanish crisis.
What I’m listening to: Grant Green, Grantland;The Kills, No Wow.
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