Category Archives: Teaching

I’m serving as a guest lecturer in one of SI’s undergraduate courses this week, and teaching is shaking up my week nicely.  I haven’t taught in a classroom regularly since the fall of 2006, and I was eager to get back into the classroom.  This week’s topic in the course is “The Business of Information Read more...

Writing is incredibly hard. Well, good writing is anyway. I’ve had the fortune to get some writing guidance in person from Karl Weick and in book form from Howard Becker. I thought you might enjoy some of their tips as well. I’ve shared these with my students, and the ones who tried them did write Read more...

Check it out: To: Libby Hemphill I’m pleased to announce that you have been selected to receive an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for 2007-2008. You were chosen from an especially impressive group of nominees representing schools and colleges across the University. … —Homer Rose I’m pretty excited and grateful for the award. Thank you Read more...

I’m still working on my teaching statement for my Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor nomination. I can’t seem to get it right, and it can be only one page long. What do you think about this? Teaching in a professional program such as the School of Information Master’s degree program forces me to balance goals Read more...

It’s time again for me to write a statement of teaching philosophy. My limit is one page. My brain is not working as well as one might hope. Here’s what I have for the middle. I’m still working on the intro and conclusion, which obviously will require edits to the middle. What do you think? Read more...