Month: August 2014

Visual Annotation & Commentary: Three Vernacular Tools

Published by Edward O'Neill on August 31, 2014

For a long time, scholarship largely focused on words and numbers. Yes, art historians and theater scholars and radiographers thought a lot about images. But today the visual dimension of knowledge increasingly leaves mere words and numbers in the shadows. Chalk it up to the proliferation of screens–on our desks,…

Three Questions, One Answer

Published by Edward O'Neill on August 28, 2014

In a recent blog post , Doug Mckee addresses three issues in how he should teach this fall. 1. Should I ban laptops in lecture? 2. Should I make discussion sections mandatory? 3. Should I cold-call students during lecture? Basically: no, no and no—all for the same reasons. 1. Should…