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What Kind of Car Would I Be?
In my teaching demo, and in classes this semester, as an icebreaker, I’ve asked students, “if you were a car, what kind of car would you be?” In both cases I avoided questions about my answer. I had a pat…
On Disasters: H1N1, earthquakes and outbreaks.
The flu has turned up in several of my classes, but in one, there have been 2 reported cases of the illness formerly known as swine flu. One purported to be confirmed by a doctor, and the other of a…
Active Learning – ad campaign:
Many students mentioned a preference for “hands on” learning. Some called it by different names. Several students called it Visual learning. Dewey might have called it experience based learning. In Comp 1 we will start an activity either Friday, 9.18.9…
Students Right to their Own Language
Perennial old-school curricular curmudgeon Stanley Fish has recently published a series of blog posts on composition instruction (see also part 2, part 3). He speaks directly to a writing prompt I’ve given one of my classes. As something of a…
Acceptable Language revisited
Twice this semester I’ve heard the phrase, “that’s so gay.” I’ve made it clear I don’t like it and haven’t heard it since. At the big to-do on campus last friday I saw these posters, and they made me think.…
Questions for the class 8.19.9
How do you want to organize and archive your daily writing? In the past I’ve very prescriptive (or is proscriptive?) in telling students what kind of bound and expandable notebook type contrivance to use. And always 3-5% of the class…
Accessing ANGEL
ANGEL is our online course management system. It is required for college excellence whether you’re taking distance learning courses, hybrid (with reduced seat time) or traditional ‘sit and get’ courses. ANGEL tutorials provide detailed video re: how to login and…
Course Policies – filling in the gaps
In case you missed it in class discussion, there are some issues not addressed in the official course policies that might be of interest.You are the best judge of whether you need to use the bathroom. I may have shared…
Cool resources, free learning materials, fun stuff
Laughing Squid (a blog I like) points us to a Free Music Archive. You can download music legally and, according to laughing squid, use it pretty much however you want. If you find something good here let me know and…