Diane K. Jakacki

Tag: teaching

  • The semester at an end

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    I plowed through marking and submitted final grades yesterday. I should be overjoyed but have that strange feeling that I’m not doing something I should be … some sort of post-grading stress. Overall it was a good semester. Students were on the whole enthusiastic and responsive – which made it more gratifying. Considering I threw…

  • More good stuff from Evernote

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        Evernote Takes On Web Reading With Clearly – NYTimes.com. Just read this on the NYT Bits column. I use Evernote a lot for everything from course prep to saving massive quantities of tweets. I’m looking forward to testing Clearly.

  • Skiles Breezeway or Blackfriars Theatre?

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    [reposted from TECHStyle] This week I’m teaching Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle as part of my English 1102 course on London City Comedy. The play is usually identified as a breakthrough Early Modern parody (of other plays like The Shoemaker’s Holiday and The Four Prentises) and one of the first English plays…

  • I’ve gone compartmental

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    Sunny Sunday morning. The temperature is finally dropping below 80. And the leaves are changing. I still can’t get used to autumn in the south … No outdoors for me, though. The lists and stacks and deadlines just grow and loom. It’s not enough that there are seventy-five wiki entries waiting for me to grade…

  • Contemplation

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    The sky in Atlanta this morning is a clear vivid blue – the kind of sky that will always remind me of the days and weeks after 9/11, when it seemed that the attack on the Twin Towers had triggered some weird natural response. There was no rain, there were no clouds. The only airplane…