There’s been a lot in the news recently about the “Tiger Mother, ” Amy Chua, who has written an apology for an Asian Stereotype. In short, she defends remorseless and aggressive parenting defined by denial of silly things like art…
Facebook Perils: Article summary and comment
Facebook relates to the specific composition objectives of developing the awareness and understanding of voice and audience. LaRoche and Flanigan (2009) note that students enter college and work discourse communities with unrealistic expectations regarding their rights to free speech, and…
Managing distractions
I like the options that teaching in a computer lab brings to writing classes – afterall, writing today is done on computers, but they offer so much distractions. Students aren’t the only ones. In presentations to teachers and business people,…
facebook ethics: JCCC in the news
Last Nov. 10 (2010) a group of nursing students took a photograph of a human placenta while they were in class on a field trip/ clinical. You’ll have to read the summary yourself at KC Star and The Pitch. Long…
A hole in the road
Experimenting today with embedding images from other blogs. Driven by this place hundreds if not thousands of times and never stopped. The kids loved it.