Most of the time, when I lay my head on the pillow at night I am tired. But before I nod off to sleep, I will have this sense of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with what was accomplished throughout the course of the day. I know if I was productive or unproductive – if I did the things that mattered or …
Tajfel Saved My Team
Today I will be teaching a class entitled, How To Lead A SuperCamp. I’ve had a lot of experience in leading and directing youth camps and will be sharing some of what I know with students at our University. One of the really fun elements of this class will be talking about Minimal Group Theory (MGT). This theory was developed …
Are You Paralyzed?
I just started with a new cohort in a course I teach on postmodernity. One of the first books I have them read is Postmodern Pilgrims by Leonard Sweet. Sweet takes the reader through the powerful effects of his culturally relevant E-P-I-C model: Experiential Participatory Image-Driven Connected In the book’s Introduction, Sweet shares a great story…
My Favorite Twitter iPhone App
There are numerous iPhone apps out there that one can use to navigate and interact with Twitter. I’ve tried almost all of the free ones that I could find and even dropped a buck or two on a few. But I’ve got one app right now that’s my favorite. It’s the only one I use. I’ll just say that the …
Categorically Speaking
Starting a personal blog requires one to think about the various roles and topics that one might write about. The way you organize all of the random thoughts into some type of organized resource is through categories. For me, I spent about an hour with my moleskine notebook writing down all of the various categories I felt like future posts …
Oceanside
Uploading some pics to see how they look on the site. Trying to figure out the maximum dimensions I can use here. It looks like it’s 565px. This image is one of my favorite background images on my desktop. It’s called “oceanside.” Nice and clean. Click on the pic for the VERY large version.
A Personal (but not proudful) Website
Some might consider me an “early adopter.” While most people are considering whether they should even invest their time and money in the latest gadget or social media experiment, I’m trying to figure out when the next upgrade is available. Yet I’ve been hesitant when it comes to developing my “own, personal” website. It feels a little bit like I’m …