A plea from a popular account on Twitter gives advice on the responsible and ethical use of news sources and research on social media. The advice holds just as true for any use of research in writing. To many of…
JCCC Sustainability ROCKS: Why the F*ck is this Behind a Firewall!
Sometime in the last few months Infohub has been moved behind a firewall. This aggravates me to no end, but I will return to that. First – BIG UPS to THE JCCC SUSTAINABILITY DEPARTMENT. This is something to be proud…
Missing and Exploited Women
It thrills me to be part of the Indian Knowledge: Western Education grant, and the specific focus I want to explore is the exploitaion and abuse of native American women. I will be cataloging and documenting relevant web resources here…
OER RATIONALE!
Vox reports that college textbook prices have gone up 1000% since the 1970’s. Yeah. Open Educational Resources time has come. Despite the attitudes of some administration, student costs and debt are raging out of control.
On the end of Black History month
I may need to do 2 truths and a lie this week. Jemele Hill, the sharp and witty correspondent from The Atlantic (a conservative mag of repute) and formerly of ESPN, and perhaps the first journalist of color to directly…
The Jo: Transportation, sustainability, social media and JCCC
There have been issues on predictably getting a bus in situations of inclement weather, and the Jo and JCCC make decisions independently of each other. (although the Jo does run a reduced schedule when the school is on break –…
Social media, JCCC, and the state of the student body.
JCCC has been in national news via tweets of the president’s comments at a public breakfast in Washington DC . KC Star, Pitch and others have reported. Apparently he has discouraged raising the mill levee to support the school (see…
From the Interwebs 2.13.19
Links to resources relevant to my classes. Advice from hiring committee – for anyone applying for anything Facebook, Google and Microsoft becoming Data Distilleries. Receiving email and text messages during activity diminishes IQ by 10 points. The Problem with Judging…
New Nat Narrative
I’m going to introduce a new natural narrative based on my experience 9/21/99. Here’s where I drafted a story for use with an EAP reading class. I’m going to include a reference based on a movie I was watching at the time…
The No Classhole Rule
I‘ve written before about Robert Sutton’s book, The No Asshole Rule. It’s a lodestone text in business classes written by a Stanford Business professor and developed from an article he published in The Harvard Business Review. It’s a funny story. …