Shorthand Troubles, an Edison film that makes an appearance in chapter 4 of The Audible Past is now available online. Here’s a link to the place I found it (or rather, where google alerts found it for me).
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
More on Coverage
There are some excellent comments in the thread for my post on lecturing and retention. The question seems to be: is coverage more important in fields with strong canons, and what’s the alternative? My sense is this: Physics has as strong a “canon” as any humanities field, so the issues of core curriculum seem as …
How to Read a Book in Less than an Hour
Chris Kelty’s advice. I haven’t tried his method though I have my own “plowing” methods which I may detail at a later date if I decide there’s something original in it. I tend to real slowly and obsessively when I teach. Leaving aside dull and moralistic arguments about how much effort should be expended in …
Lecturing and Killing the “Coverage” idea
I don’t think I’ve written about this, but I am obsessed with large lecture pedagogy. Although a sizeable number of students in my intro class seem to really like it (although liking isn’t the point necessarily) and I get good ratings, I have always been interested in how to be a better teacher. The thing …
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Sign of the Forthcoming Machine Apocalypse
Not only does the McGill University bookstore not sell colored chalk, they don’t sell chalk.
Interview Season
Over at Sivacracy Siva Vaidhyanathan has dispensed some very useful advice to those people who have campus interviews coming. But there are a couple places where I’d add and one where I’d heartily disagree. It’s a little awkward to make this post since there’s a big round of interviews coming up at McGill, and I’d …
Q&A on Being a Scholar and Musician
This is one of those blog entries from an email exchange. Someone asked: Someday I’d love to hear anything you have to say about being a musician/scholar. I’m probably the wrong person to ask since I’ve been doing serious admin for the last 2.5 years and at the same time I’ve been playing the jet-setting …