I’ve never understood when students turn in work that doesn’t meet the word count or length requirements, especially on the papers after the first turned in for grade. If you’ve played a sport – or studied a martial art –…
Protests in China?
Several reports have come out of China alluding to unrest similar to what we’ve seen in Egypt, Libya and Wisconsin. Boingboing.com blog on the 26th (Saturday) noticed the censorship and detention of bloggers who used the word “jasmine revolution” online.…
Manners and Higher ed.
The image comes from one of my guilty pleasures – a meme themed blog on graphs and images (original found here). I’ve edited it for my more sensitive and/or delicate audience. Much of what we teach – particularly in comp…
Chinese Tiger Mothers
There’s been a lot in the news recently about the “Tiger Mother, ” Amy Chua, who has written an apology for an Asian Stereotype. In short, she defends remorseless and aggressive parenting defined by denial of silly things like art…
A hole in the road
Experimenting today with embedding images from other blogs. Driven by this place hundreds if not thousands of times and never stopped. The kids loved it.
Alcove Spring
There isn’t too much on Alcove Springs online yet, except where it’s mentioned in just about every account of the ill-fated Donner party. I’m collecting resources, so let me know if you have anything. I’m helping a niece with a…
Expectations
I always have great advice at the end of a semester, but at the begining of a semster I want to build group dynamics and assess…. next semester I plan on having students read all my posts labeled “advice” and…
Quoting the dictionary: Faculty responses
In an unscientific poll of Composition 1 instructors at JCCC, 8 have weighed in. When asked how they felt when a writer quoted the dictionary in the introduction of an essay, 7 of 8 chose “Arrgh. I hate it” with…
Service Team-Based Projects
Groups this semester have created survey’s online as part of their research. They request peer participation. Please take these surveys if appropriate and forward (again, as appropriate). on academic integrity and ethics http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SJGV5ZY on the boundaries between student, athlete and…
Since no one reads student email, & I can’t cut & paste into the LMS
A note from the Registrar re: Transcript Requests At the end of the semester, we receive thousands of last minute requests from students who want their transcript sent to another institution as soon as grades are posted. Students should submit…