I’m addicted to reddit and memebase in general (especially Failbook). I’ve never seen “How I Met Your Mother” and have no real interest. I’ve been to Hong Kong at least 7 times and was there for the handover (worst party…
China in the news this month
Pre-Olympics round up of summer media coverage I’ve read (?) on China. China arrests thousands in latest internet crime crackdown Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced political leader, has been charged with murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. River hero allowed…
The Relevance of Composition class
Yet another business person on the importance of writing “correctly” to hiring and working in the real world published in the Harvard Business Review. I tell students every year the LJW and the KC Star post similar letters from business…
On working this summer in Hawaii
Countdown to the East /West China workshop/ conference in Hawaii. This post is mostly to see if the clock html works, and catalogue some resources. The East/West Center website This clock has current Honolulu time. my wiki http://compchina.pbworks.com/EastWest
Plagiarism – my policy explained
Do you know how to make rice? Put 1 cup rice and 2 cups water together, bring to boil, reduce heat and cover for 20 minutes. How much would you pay for that much rice in a restaurant? It depends. …
spring final exam schedule
Student’s always have trouble figuring out when finals are. If instructors try to schedule anything other than the time prescribed by the college – they shouldn’t. There’s no reason to have more than 3 finals on 1 day – and…
Punctuality
This keeps happening. I’ve written about using The No *ssh*l* Rule as part of my syllabus (it’s a book written by Ivy league business prof, and published in Harvard University Press). I really enjoy this chart, taken from Graphjam (link…
Earth Days at JCCC
Events coming for the Earth Days week: See link for more details. I’ll be working on the campus farm Monday, and have been encouraging my students to come along (hey – free lunch) but no takers yet. For more information…
Everyone hates it when you quote the dictionary
Watched Community on NBC for the first time. Set in a community college, it may offer context for discussions with students. Saw episode 311, and saw it on demand so I don’t know when it originally aired – 3rd…
using quotes in papers
Quotations – and quotation marks – mean something. In my class and in my edublogs I’ve discussed scare quotes and why quotation marks should not be used to indicate irony – or used merely to emphasize words. When instructors see…