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Live-Tweeting Bernstein's Engaged Fallibilistic Pluralism

Among its many affordances, Twitter can be a powerful public note taking tool. At the end of a rich and exhausting conference celebrating the work and teaching of Richard J. Bernstein, I used Twitter to…

Christopher LongSeptember 28, 2014

The Graduate Experience The Long Road

The Graduate Experience: Pathologies of Self-Doubt

Whatever else can be said of the PhD endeavor, it is fraught with anxiety and self-doubt. Everyone associated with graduate education knows this, many of us from first-hand experience, but rarely do we discuss it,…

Christopher LongSeptember 2, 2014

Technology The Long Road

Keynote Tweet, Mavericks and Keynote v6

If you are, as I am, in the habit of live-tweeting your own lectures using Keynote and the Applescript Keynote Tweet 2.5, originally created by Toby Harris and subsequently updated by @cogdog, you will need…

Christopher LongDecember 26, 2013

The Administrative Life The Long Road

General Education Reform and the Art of Listening

By the time we took the stage as the final panel of the day, we had heard the voices of expert educators, faculty, administrators, employers and alums speak about the value and importance of general…

Christopher LongNovember 3, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Reading the Death of Socrates

Returning to Wittenberg for the first time since graduating in 1991, I gave an interactive, live-tweeted, lecture on Reading the Death of Socrates. The paper argues that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue,…

Christopher LongSeptember 19, 2013

Academic The Long Road

Collaborative Note Taking on @Twitter

As many of you know, I have long been experimenting with how to use twitter effectively in academic contexts. Many are skeptical of twitter's ability to add substantive value to academic conversations because of its…

Christopher LongApril 7, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Putting the Liberal Arts into Practice @NewmanU

The Liberal Arts are not so much a set of disciplines to be studied as they are a set of habits to be practiced. This is the central point and main theme around which my…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2013

Education Technology The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

Twitter, Community and the First Year Experience

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

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Keynote Address: Liberal Arts and Politics

From its earliest articulation in Ancient Greek thinking, the first principle and ultimate end of an education in the liberal arts has always been to live an excellent human life. Because, however, human life can…

Christopher LongNovember 27, 2012

Academic Technology The Long Road

On Live-Tweeting Your Own Lecture

On Thursday, October 25th, at 4:30 PDT, I will read a paper entitled, Plato and the Politics of Reading at the University of San Francisco. One of the main points of the paper is that reading is fundamentally a…

Christopher LongOctober 20, 2012

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Collaborative Research in Philosophy

Today in the Foster Auditorium of the Pattee/Paterno Library, my undergraduate research assistant, Lisa Lotito, and I gave a presentation about the workflow we use in doing philosophical research. I have written in some detail…

Christopher LongJuly 21, 2011

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