Will post link to powerpoint eventually. Old blog posts on Facebook and dissertation. Powerpoint from TYCA presentation Please use this to continue the conversation.
That’ll teach me.
Took a risk and modified an icebreaker. My first class was brutal, but the second class were kind. It was all in good fun tho. I have high hopes for my classes this semester. Languageses>en YahooCE hope
Types of students
Need to talk about taxonomy of student archetypes. Colleague identified the Tourist. At another famous off campus blog an anonymous community college teacher went a litter farther. http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/07/developmental-grab-bag.html Maybe for an activity students could do taxonomy of college teachers?
Migration
Welcome to Greg Dixon’s edublog. I’ve migrated my most recent blog of research, teaching activities and articles of personal interest from blogger at http://dixoncomp.blogspot.com/. Interesting how well the images and comments came through, but the text (font and such) looks off…
SQUIRREL!
Been thinking about the squirrel meme lately. It started in the pixar movie UP! A dog is given a device that enables him to speak English. We like him and he wants to please, but every time he sees a…
the no sshls rule
Been thinking of boiling my course policies down to something short and clear. Something like the best selling book, The No Asshole Rule (written by Stanford business prof Robert Sutton – and winner of the 2007 Quill award for best…
Trains – the ole 844 steamer
I’ve long had a soft spot for trains. These images come from the UPRR Facebook site. I voted to get them to come through Topeka/ KC with this classic steam engine (the 844). I didn’t have a chance to see…
day trip
A special thanks to the bloggers in Comp 1 who turned me on to Deanna Rose farmstead for children. And thanks to my wife, who takes much better pictures than I. We really like this place – and I can’t…
KC Disc Dog Photo Experiments
So the only camera I had when we stumbled across the Kansas City Disc Dogs demo in Southpark Last week, was the ancient 3 megapixel – which is enough a camera to outpace my talents as a photographer. So this…
Body art
I know stories of people not getting jobs (in banks, as nurses) because of their tattoos. I keep thinking this would make a good paper topic for the SRTOL paper, but I haven’t seen it done well yet. Cracked has…