Found some some interesting images Re: China this week. Will need to find my notes on Zheng He. We discussed the scale of the ship(s) in past Title 6 meetings, but seeing this helps. (Found at http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2013/january/images/20-History.jpg). The Map below…
On Commas: the controversy!
How do we feel about where the period goes at the end of a quote? Students, when consistent, tend to use logical punctuation (see Slate article for argument). If they (students) choose “logical” punctuation, they have to state that in…
Great logical fallacies infographic (?)
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on Education.
It may seem counter – intuitive to some, but more frequent assessment doesn’t automatically improve performance. As an old farmer used to say, weighing a cow more often doesn’t help fatten it up. The current fetish with testing has it’s…
The Transactional Model of Education
College had an IdeaScope thread where a staff member asked why students don’t value their education at JCCC as much as they should. The classes here are taught by experienced teachers, many of whom have PhD’s. The same classes at…
what to work on with Comp 1 next year: FA2012
data bases are not sources, they list sources. Sometimes they link to full text, but if you read an article from the Greenr database you cite the journal it came from. When you search you should specify full text only…
Creative Writer’s Readings 11/18/12
Explaining White Man’s Burden to a Colored 5 Year Old. “That’s not for me” the boy explained. He’d been reading the development wheel, and I’d been co-opting that as a teachable moment. I incorporated the guilt training I’d had as…
Respect my Authoritah!
I’ve been using ANGEL extensively for years, but the Ed Tech dept finally made an honest man out of me. I’m legit now, and this is the sort of spontaneous publicity, my name in print, that is going to take…
“The Lottery”
Halloween is around the corner, and I’ve always had a special esteem for the particular brand of creepy found in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” html of text free. PDF for free. Wikipedia Video short in 2 parts on YouTube:…
Nobel Prize in Literature Announced
The nobel Prize in Literature was just announced, and it goes to a Chinese Writer – Mo Yan, who, while arguably not dissident, allegedly manages find ways to tell inconvenient truths. I am at the moment unfamiliar with his work,…