Reflections on 2023
I’m all about setting goals. And as the new year loams, revisiting my goals are important. Equally important, however, is reflecting the past year’s accomplishments. It provides me with perspective of what I can...
Author: John
Amazon and Chinese companies: How deep do brands go?
Recently, I listened to a podcast that commented on the weird brand names appearing on Amazon and its impact on the US Patent and Trademark Office. Curious, I took a look. My search begins...
Update on research
With my application for promotion to Professor on the horizon, it is time to provide a research update, reviewing where I’m at and what I plan to accomplish in the coming year. This past...
Using ChatGPT to build a course
How fast can I build a course using the new ChatGPT? A couple weeks ago, I attended a session on using AI for course development. It got me to wondering just how fast I...
Section 230 and the Future of the Internet
Before the Supreme Court are two cases that question an immunity clause in the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Part of this act included a section (Section 230) that protected companies that hosted user content...
Research 2.0
It occurred to me recently that academia has, in all of its traditional glory, failed to adopt the the Web 2.0 mindset in publication and research. We live in a publish or perish environment. ...
Look out for AI generated essays
A couple days ago, I was shocked to read a story by philosophy professor Darren Hick out of Furman University. He shared publicly on Facebook a story about a student using AI generated essays...
Catastrophizing Social Media
It’s easy today to hate on social media. News articles suggest social media causes anxiety, spreads misinformation, and become cesspools of me-to thinking. And not without basis. Various scientific articles have shared these concerns...
Teaching the right way – with principles
How can principles help you build lesson plans? By helping your focus on what matters most. In this post, I outline how I used them to teach web services.
How to Make the Best Damn Course in our College
Good is not good enough. Using key pedagogical principles, great things can happen in my course. Here’s how I plan to do it.