Friday, March 4, 2011

More on Academic Computing

I think I let my brain run away with me. For one thing, I should have remembered such things as the MyCompLab travesty—a piece of software that was supposed to make English teaching much better but which was such a dog that the University of Akron unanimously ditched it after a semester.

Anyhow, I'm not really employed by any college or university. I've got to remember that. In May I will, as usual, be totally unemployed. That's a good reason to set up my stuff to be totally independent of proprietary devices and software. It can be done, and it can be beautiful. I've proven that over and over. So there's just no reason to grieve because some LM suite or sexy piece of hardware simply won't behave. I don't need them and I shouldn't even try to use them. My next place won't have them.

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