This is why I love teaching at UL. Occasionally, you get emails like this one. A student in Economics for Business wrote me the following email after a rant in class asking why shouldn’t we double the ‘dole’ to increase consumption. Here’s her email to me, and my reply is below the fold.
Everytime we talk [...]
Here’s a talk I gave on Tuesday to a symposium on Social Media with Prof. Gerry McKiernan, revolving around using social media tools like this blog, the text messaging software, and The Twitter, etc, to communicate and interact with my students. I also spoke about these papers, here, here and here. Slides are below.
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It’s a wet day before term starts, so I’m reading little bits and piece to keep me sane (also: ranting about dead socialists). I’ve just finished Seth Godin’s The Dip, an 80 page little rant about quitting, and when it is smart to do so. Godin’s idea can be summarised in [...]