Sabbatical
One nice thing about being an academic is that every seven years (hopefully) we get to enjoy a sabbatical. This is a time away from teaching where we get to focus on our other work: research, course development, reading, etc. I’m fortunate enough to be entering this period right now. So, I won’t be teaching again until January of 2011. Sweet!
What will I be working on, you ask? Well, I have a number of projects I’d like to finish - too many really. So I need to try to focus on limiting my work. Aside from finishing a few things that are hanging around, I want to take my new work in three directions:
- Publications - I have several articles I need to wrap up and an edited text I’m hoping to start work on.
- Web Design Text - different than my research, this is a title that would be useful for web development courses
- Course Development - specifically, I’m going to develop a mobile applications design/development course
- Photography - I have thousands of images that need my attention, and I’m looking to spend some time with this creative work
So what does this mean for Arranged Delirium? A couple of things. First, I’ll likely post about fun things more than regular technology developments; and second, I’ll probably post less often for a bit. I’ll also likely take this time to re-design the site and update the server software on the back end.
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I did. I was putting together a new technique for 271. It’s very simple - my only fear is that I don’t know if students will recognize the results of a rubber stamp. Does anyone use them anymore? Maybe they’ll recognize it if I use the word FAIL as the subject…
I like it. Sad thought though. Kind of like when I was filing (in the basement! ) the other day and thought, will people of the future wonder why our desktop folder icons are shaped like little rectangles with tabs on them? 
Did you make the graphic? Cool.