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While we’re on the subject of sugar
From Laughing Squid
Spotting bias in texts (cherry picking part 2)
Sugar is good food (!?)The good folks at Boing Boing shared this after finding it at an individuals blog dedicated to vintage ads. See also: Fox News Advocates Shutting Down Libraries
Research on Peer Feedback and CMC.
Currently reading “Peer Feedback Through Blogs: Student and teacher perceptions in an advanced German class” by DORIS DIPPOLD found in European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 21 (1) : 18-36. Published in 2009. This article explores the question of…
Secrets of other teachers.
Tweed, a blog by the Chronicle of Education, has an interesting example of teachers who should know better having no privacy settings and posting inappropriate (?) comments on Facebook. This isn’t how I grade because a) I don’t drink beer…
Research on Facebook: statistics.
Near the end of 2009, Facebook had over 300 million users and it’s common stock value was about $9.5 billion (Womack, 2009). By the beginning of 2010 it had become the “most popular social network in eight of the 10…
Grammar matters (?): #9 farther vs. further.
Farther is distance and further is for an abstract concept – matter of time or degree usually. Click on cartoon for full treatment (it won’t fit here and be legible).
Grammar matters (?)
Oddly enough – non-standard grammar / spelling bother most people even more than it bothers English teachers. English teachers just see so much of it; however, nothing makes people feel more superior than reading someone else’s mistakes. Failure to proofread…
Feedback: teacher clarity and millennials
About every semester lately I get a request from a couple students for greater clarity in what is expected in a writing assignment. I expect this because the course goals and objectives of composition classes call for abstract thinking and…
advice to myself – what I’ll do differently next semester
We will establish the role of wikipedia (ie. anything there should be considered common knowledge, so it doesn’t make an effective quote in a real research paper – but can make useful footnotes for electronic discussions). likewise: queries to ask.com…