I get to travel to Taiwan and China for 3 months to gather content for a book to share with my students! The project involves primary research and travel to develop and write for a themed textbook, specifically for JCCC…
Technology, social media and mental health
I have found, or perhaps my family has informed me, that heavy use of social media on my phone makes me short tempered and unhappy. This is particularly true of my use of Twitter. I had an account I rarely…
RateMyProfessor: Marketing, Assessment and Reliability.
A student journalist contacted me yesterday and asked about my feelings on the accuracy of feedback on a popular crowd sourced website. They approached me because I had the highest number of student evaluations (206 at this moment). My feelings…
Co-lab grant: media evaluation – sustainability as object lesson
Slideshow link at tinyurl.com/spCoLabProject
Apply for JCCC scholarships !
The 2017-2018 JCCC Scholarship Application is available through the My Financial Aid tab in MyJCCC. The priority deadline is April 1, 2017, but departments, selective admission programs, clubs and/or organizations continue to award scholarships throughout the academic year. Some need-based…
Academics getting political
Scientists react to political climate by running for office (CSM). Professor Smith Goes to Washington (The Atlantic). Registering professors with liberal bias (Inside Higher Ed). In my experience, faculty (or academics) are clever but independent. Organizing them can be like herding cats, but…
History from Dr Seuss.
How to Use D2L: where the tutorials are.
For those students who are new to using online systems, somethings can be counter-intuitive, so I advise you to watch some of the tutorials. The icebreakers are in D2L, the Learning Management System (LMS). I’m guessing you are new…
Teaching Performance Self-exam
I’ve been reading a book used in many college business classes and based on by Stanford Business Professor Robert Sutton, PhD , called The No Asshole Rule. He developed the book from apopular article he wrote for The Harvard Business…
Using RatemyProfessor.com to Evaluate Courses.
What is the college’s priority, learning or making things easy and convenient? When it comes to parking, I have no problem eliminating faculty parking spaces, but when it comes to the goal of the college, learning should come first. It…