Interesting Links
Good Reads
Ben Fountain: Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (P.S.)
Brady Udall: The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel
Fun and funny.Jess Walter: The Financial Lives of the Poets: A Novel (P.S.)
Is it possible to make funny one's financial and marital ruin? Yes, if it is someone else.Jonathan Franzen: Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
Complex, but worth the reading time.Manny Hernandez: Ning For Dummies
A good investment. The book was instrumental in my developing "Pioneer Pace," a Ning for Carroll College (University) community members. I also wrote an Amazon review.Melanie Nelson: TypePad For Dummies
Well written and usefulNaomi S. Baron: Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
A thoughtful, fair-minded, data supported discussion of how being online affects writing, thinking, and relationships.Richard E. Nisbett: Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
My review of this is in press in PsycCRITIQUES. One of the clearest and most compelling arguments that intelligence is mallaeble. A marvelous though scathing review of much educational research.
My Other Accounts
One-Line Bio
Professor of Psychology at Carroll University, U.S.A.
Biography
I am a Professor of Psychology at Carroll University (USA). I am interested in finding the right balance of social media tools and more traditional ways of teaching and learning. More about me in my role as Professor of Psychology at Carroll can be found here http://www.carrollu.edu/programs/psychology/faculty_profile.asp?id=2F38
Interests
dogs, web 2.0, reading, education
