Quotation marks: as written on the board in class, “quotation marks look like this” as opposed to ‘quotation marks look like this.’ The single mark quote mark in American English is reserved for quotes within quotes. Rhetorical use of…
Things not to say to your prof, and other advice.
I expect all of my comp 1 students to have read Mary Pat McQueeney’s “Information for Dual Enrolled High School Students,” and Matthew Schmeer’s “A Few Notes about This Class and How I TEach it” and Dave Davis’s “10 things…
The Transactional Model of Education
College had an IdeaScope thread where a staff member asked why students don’t value their education at JCCC as much as they should. The classes here are taught by experienced teachers, many of whom have PhD’s. The same classes at…
More Advice for Students: from teh interwebs.
I was the almost first generation to graduate college; My mom beat me by a couple years. I did benefit from hearing about her experiences, but there are tricks and truths about college that 2nd and 3rd generation college grads…
Types of Students
College Misery breaks down taxonomies of students with frightening regularity. I want to think that if we discussed theses we could better communicate with with first generation students who don’t know what to expect and / or have unrealistic expectations.…
Types of Professors
I enjoy taxonomies like this, and hope to engage a class in examining archetypes, stereotypes and the like and exploring why they, exist, what they mean, their use and shortcomings. Matt Groening in School is Hell may have done it…
What incoming frosh should know: Teacher/admin perspective
other alleged profs and admin on the reddit thread supplied the following advice. It provided largely verbatim, but since I provide the link and this isn’t a formal paper, certain liberties are taken with format, tense, etc. Use “control F”…
FA2012 Scheduling Anomalies
The following are planned and/or tentative exceptions to the regular weekly schedule for My Classes due to holidays as well as professional and/or personal commitments. Some classes are canceled, while others are either moved online or a substitute teacher will…
If you use something, cite it!
Some salty language at the end if you scroll down, but it makes a good point. Original source here.
The problem with a social D
A report currently excerpted on Doonesbury in the “say what” (a kinda WTF quote of the day) states: The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate,…