Words do things. What they do, depends on the manner in which they are said, written and received. What they did, and failed to do, last night is something that requires some reflection. That is…
Christopher LongNovember 29, 2012
Villemard 1910 - En L'An 2000 - At School Originally uploaded by amphalon My most recent blog post over on the Wonders and Marvels blog considers what Plutarch has to teach us about teaching and…
Christopher LongMay 17, 2012
University budgeting and strategic planning was the focus of the final Academic Leadership Program (ALP) sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held at Penn State, April 12-14, 2012. No two topics have more…
Christopher LongApril 22, 2012
At the 2012 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State, I had the honor of introducing Jane McGonigal, Creative Director of Social Chocolate, and game designer extraordinaire. In his book, The Grasshopper, Bernard…
Christopher LongMarch 24, 2012
In her address to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program at the University of Chicago last Thursday, Martha Nussbaum offered a compelling defense of a liberal arts education. She advocated for an education…
Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2012
Sometimes without looking, one finds a paradigm - an example that can serve as a model. Last week I visited Indiana University as a one of Penn State's Academic Leadership Fellows in the Academic Leadership Program of…
Christopher LongNovember 11, 2011
Dear Liberal Arts Student Colleagues: As we process the events of the past week, it is difficult to grapple with what we and others are thinking and feeling. Each of us responds to these events…
Christopher LongNovember 10, 2011
Student Panel at LASTS11 Originally uploaded by LAUSatPSU On Wednesday, September 28th at 4pm eastern, we in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Studies office will take another step out into the great technological unknown by recording…
Christopher LongSeptember 27, 2011
St. Andrew's Preschool Originally uploaded by cplong11 It happened without warning, without any hint that the end was at hand. Suddenly, there it was: May 27th, the day after the last day of the preschool…
Christopher LongJune 10, 2011
I first met Ruth Canagarajah in an honors course I taught a few years ago. She already struck me then as a thoughtful, engaged and creative student. She wrote an excellent paper for that course…
Christopher LongMarch 1, 2011
Deliberative Democracy Flash Forum Panel Originally uploaded by cplong11 This image captures a poignant moment in the Flash Forum in Response to the Arizona Shootings held by the Center for Democratic Deliberation on January 21…
Christopher LongJanuary 22, 2011
Mendeley on the iPhone Originally uploaded by cplong11 I am happy to report that Mendeley has developed an iPhone app that brings us a step closer to the digital research model I hope to implement…
Christopher LongJuly 20, 2010
It is widely recognized among educators that student engagement is a key to academic success. Disengaged students erode the social dynamics in the classroom, have a negative impact on their peers and drop out at…
Christopher LongJuly 8, 2010
Cole Camplese and I were invited to be part of this year's Learning Design Summer Camp at Penn State. The presentation topic that was proposed to us was strong in and of itself, but when…
Christopher LongJuly 2, 2010
It is already clear to me that the iPad does not replicate the experience of the iPhone even though many of the apps serve the same functionality. The iPad is much less intrusive in collaborative…
Christopher LongApril 8, 2010
Over the past few days I have been thinking more intensely about the meaning and nature of academic transformation. In the wake of the TLT Symposium at Penn State last weekend, I traveled to Orlando…
Christopher LongMarch 30, 2010
Upon reading the 2010 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium, I was struck by how the key trends in technology they identify might help us meet challenges they articulate. Let me mention a two…
Christopher LongFebruary 6, 2010
The Rock Ethics Institute has taken a lead in cultivating a real dialogue about the Penn State's energy future. On November 18, 2009, Nancy Tuana, the Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, moderated a roundtable…
Christopher LongDecember 15, 2009
After talking to trusted people, thinking things over and otherwise working through the transition I am making to Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the College of the Liberal Arts, I have decided to embrace…
Christopher LongDecember 13, 2009
One of the most difficult things for new Graduate Students to manage effectively is their time. This is in large part because graduate study has built into it large segments of unstructured time that can…
Christopher LongNovember 9, 2009
Twenty years ago today, I can remember the buzz that spread among my American student colleagues at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna when we learned that the Berlin Wall had fallen.Just two weeks…
Christopher LongNovember 9, 2009
One of the great privileges of my summer faculty fellowship has been the opportunity to work with creative and thoughtful educators and designers who were able to help me think more holistically about my identity…
Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2009
Dear Chloe:Today you begin a great and wondrous journey. Today, you begin Kindergarten and with it, the formal education that will open you to a world of ideas and experiences that will shape the person…
Christopher LongSeptember 3, 2009
Over the last few months, I participated on an Educational Technology Services "hot team" that focused on researching the educational significance of grassroots video. If you don't know what grassroots video is, check out our…
Christopher LongApril 15, 2009
I am beginning to notice something about my course blog for PHIL298H: Patriarchal Force and Political Power. As we discuss the material we have been reading for class and engage with one another online through…
Christopher LongFebruary 5, 2009
For those of you who have noticed a lack of postings here recently, this is largely because I am doing a lot of blogging with my honors class over at the course blog for an…
Christopher LongFebruary 3, 2009
A Liberal Arts Education is committed to cultivating habits of thinking and acting capable of responding to the world in ways that open new possibilities for human community. It is oriented in part by what…
Christopher LongMarch 23, 2008
One of the many great privileges of teaching here at Penn State is the opportunity I have to work closely with faculty and staff committed to thinking creatively about teaching and learning. One place where…
Christopher LongDecember 23, 2007
Nat Jackson and David Yanofsky have taken it upon themselves to reactivate the Penn State Atheist, Agnostic Association that was started two years ago by Richard Jeffery, a former philosophy major here at Penn State.…
Christopher LongOctober 3, 2007
