I’ve always dug sunflower season: a last brilliant gasp of summer before autumn. Every sunflower season for the last 3 or 4 years we’ve made a point to find a first rate sunflower field for photo ops with the family. …
That’ll teach me.
Took a risk and modified an icebreaker. My first class was brutal, but the second class were kind. It was all in good fun tho. I have high hopes for my classes this semester. Languageses>en YahooCE hope
Types of students
Need to talk about taxonomy of student archetypes. Colleague identified the Tourist. At another famous off campus blog an anonymous community college teacher went a litter farther. http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/07/developmental-grab-bag.html Maybe for an activity students could do taxonomy of college teachers?
Migration
Welcome to Greg Dixon’s edublog. I’ve migrated my most recent blog of research, teaching activities and articles of personal interest from blogger at http://dixoncomp.blogspot.com/. Interesting how well the images and comments came through, but the text (font and such) looks off…
SQUIRREL!
Been thinking about the squirrel meme lately. It started in the pixar movie UP! A dog is given a device that enables him to speak English. We like him and he wants to please, but every time he sees a…
the no sshls rule
Been thinking of boiling my course policies down to something short and clear. Something like the best selling book, The No Asshole Rule (written by Stanford business prof Robert Sutton – and winner of the 2007 Quill award for best…
Funny because it’s true…
Got this from a post on the funniest facebook fails,but something very much like it has happened with one of my students.
Then he asks me to tell him what’s in the textbook
found this gem at memebase