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Does anyone see anything in this?

Posted on: October 7, 2010 Last updated on: October 7, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
See also colorblind tests for children. and colorvisiontesting
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Comic on Teaching

Posted on: October 1, 2010 Last updated on: October 1, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
Found this on the Shoebox blog (a tiny division of Hallmark). It’s consistently entertaining and occasionally useful.
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Word Choice

Posted on: September 28, 2010 Last updated on: September 28, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
Sometimes I get papers where it looks like the writer right clicked each word and went thesaurus crazy. Many students want to improve their vocabularies – but the best way to do that is by reading. Most often the initial…
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Grammar Matter (?): that vs who

Posted on: September 26, 2010 Last updated on: September 26, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
One mechanical or stylistic pet peeves that got violated most in the SP2010 semester is the careless or inconsistent use of that vs. who. These words (along with “which”) introduce a type of relative clause, which is particularly difficult for…
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What I’m learning: pronouns

Posted on: September 26, 2010 Last updated on: September 26, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
We expect to see a lot of lower scores on the “distinct sentences” portion of the Microlab, but many students this semester lamented low scores in “misplaced modifiers” and “pronouns.” Several students had already seen comments on their papers about…
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Team-based Learning: ad campaign

Posted on: September 23, 2010 Last updated on: September 23, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
I’m toying with a new idea for the team-based learning (TBL) unit of Comp 1. The lesson uses TBL methods and develops multi-modal composition skills by creating audio, video and static graphics. Last year I allowed greater student direction by…
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The Royal Order of Adjectives..

Posted on: September 14, 2010 Last updated on: September 14, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
I found this graphic at http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm Thanks to Chad for the head’s up. It illustrates what we spoke about in class – native speakers intuitively understand but Non-native speakers have to learn.
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Minimum length on Papers

Posted on: September 3, 2010 Last updated on: September 3, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
Many students complain that English classes frustrate them because of subjective grading, and that rules of grammar can be flexible. For the most part that isn’t quite true. Teachers do “grade norming” exercises with colleagues and find that we in…
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plagiarism and copyright

Posted on: September 2, 2010 Last updated on: September 2, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
image from the dilbert website at http://dilbert.com/ 9-2-10. Click to see full size image.
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Writing and Power

Posted on: September 2, 2010 Last updated on: September 2, 2010 Written by: gdixon3
Grabbed the above image from a boingboing post on Woody Guthrie, an old artist activist who wrote a couple of my favorite songs (the motorcycle song and alice’s restaurant). I like it because it highlights a point I try to…
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