Student’s always have trouble figuring out when finals are. If instructors try to schedule anything other than the time prescribed by the college – they shouldn’t. There’s no reason to have more than 3 finals on 1 day – and…
Punctuality
This keeps happening. I’ve written about using The No *ssh*l* Rule as part of my syllabus (it’s a book written by Ivy league business prof, and published in Harvard University Press). I really enjoy this chart, taken from Graphjam (link…
Earth Days at JCCC
Events coming for the Earth Days week: See link for more details. I’ll be working on the campus farm Monday, and have been encouraging my students to come along (hey – free lunch) but no takers yet. For more information…
Everyone hates it when you quote the dictionary
Watched Community on NBC for the first time. Set in a community college, it may offer context for discussions with students. Saw episode 311, and saw it on demand so I don’t know when it originally aired – 3rd…
using quotes in papers
Quotations – and quotation marks – mean something. In my class and in my edublogs I’ve discussed scare quotes and why quotation marks should not be used to indicate irony – or used merely to emphasize words. When instructors see…
Review: Not One Less
Just watched a movie from 1999 or so, made in and about China, called Not One Less (see also wikipedia). It won several awards, including Best Picture for 1999 Venice International Film Festival, and the Audience Award for the 1999…
On Tone: warning – image NSFW
I don’t find sarcasm as funny as I did as an adolescent. Too many frosh think it’s clever and edgy, but it seems so predictable. There’s a meme online that points out an interesting aspect to this. Are people not…
Book review: The Hunger Games
A colleague offered me a copy of the Hunger Games a few months ago, and I put it on a shelf to get to after I finished up my dissertation. I have to admit that the title and much of…