Rescued from the great blog meltdown are the following entries. Whether they should have survived or not is for you to judge:
Oral History Notes from Great Lakes THATcamp
What I learned at Great Lakes THATcamp
Abandoning Blackboard (sort of)
History, Teaching, and the Strange
Aaron Gulyas's Research, Teaching, and Writing
about.me
Aaron Gulyas
History, Teaching, and the Strange
I'm a historian and writer and have taught at Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan since 2006. At Mott, I cover US, World, East Asian, American Military, and Medieval European history as well as serving as a faculty technology consultant in our Professional Development office.
My first book, Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Contact Tales since the 1950s was published in May 2013 by McFarland Books.
I also recently wrote the introduction to Posthuman Blues: Dispatches From a World on the Cusp of Terminal Dissolution, a collection of writings by the late Mac Tonnies edited by Paul Kimball for Redstar Books, as well as a chapter in Gillian I. Leitch's Doctor Who In Time and Space which analyzes fan expectations and reactions to both the 1996 Fox tele-movie and the 2005 revival's premier episode.
Next up is The Chaos Conundrum, a collection of essays published by Redstar Books, coming later this year.
I am terrible at keeping up with blogs, but I also loathe Blackboard. Last summer I just decided to create my own website for hosting classes. On there, I put everything needed in a very simple interface. I even got rid of Blackboard for a semester by using Snapgrades.net. The grade book is far superior although it costs $25 per semester if you want your students to be able to check their grades online. Otherwise it is free. I am always on the lookout for grade book alternatives. While the original site took time to write, I reuse it for every course I teach. It saves me a lot of time and frustration that I am sure would be expended upon Blackboard.