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Lyle Skains

Hourly Lecturing in Higher Education: Know Your Contract, Don’t Get Screwed

This little article is a guide to what I’ve seen of these shitshow contracts, how they confuse you, how they bilk you into working unpaid…

14 min readApr 29, 2021

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Screw head coming out of a piece of wood.

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Lyle Skains

Teaching on Discord

Build a community with your students

10 min readAug 27, 2020

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Cat on a laptop

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Lyle Skains

Observations on the COVID State of Higher Education

Full Facepalm re: 2020 f2f instruction in 3… 2… 1…

24 min readAug 20, 2020

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Cartoon of dog in room on fire, drinking coffee, captioned “This is fine.”

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Lyle Skains
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The Startup

Quitting Facebook? You’ll Miss Out on Hilariously Subversive Culture

Weird Facebook and tag groups are the relief we all need

4 min readOct 3, 2019

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Quitting Facebook? You’ll Miss Out on Hilariously Subversive Culture

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Lyle Skains

How to Write Digital Fiction (Pt. 3)

What can digital fiction do?

8 min readOct 1, 2019

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How to Write Digital Fiction (Pt. 3)

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Lyle Skains

We’re Complicit in Incompetent Men’s Success

Stop enabling these #glitteryturds

5 min readSep 30, 2019

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We’re Complicit in Incompetent Men’s Success

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Lyle Skains

How to Write Digital Fiction (Pt. 2)

Getting started

4 min readSep 26, 2019

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A laptop covered in notes

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Lyle Skains

How to Write Digital Fiction (Pt. 1)

Why Write Digital Fiction?

7 min readJul 26, 2018

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A screenshot of the backend of interactive fiction platform Twine.

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Lyle Skains

You, Too, Can Write Interactive Digital Fiction

Tools for creating stories readers can play in

6 min readJul 11, 2017

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Bluewashed image of assorted Lego pieces.

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Lyle Skains

Lyle Skains

Writer/researcher in digital writing, interactive narrative, & digital publishing. Hoping for the United Federation of Planets; worried we’re doomed to the 100.

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