Everyone does it; right? Not as much in professional settings as you’d think. Sarcasm doesn’t work, despite the attempts of the sign to the right. Why do students think it’s acceptable? Sometimes it really looks bad. If you scroll down…
How to cite an anthology
Go to Norton and get the MLA pdf. Find the proper instructions, they look like this, but less blurry. Instructions assume you will use a word processor and allow words to “wrap,” so let the margins determine where the line…
TYCA presentation on Facebook
Will post link to powerpoint eventually. Old blog posts on Facebook and dissertation. Powerpoint from TYCA presentation Please use this to continue the conversation.
On Success
Just finished conferences this week. I can’t stress enough how important it is for students to drop by their teacher’s office if they want help. In College A students go to their teachers office, though in high school maybe only…
Terrible Teacher (meme): perhaps misunderstood?
I have mixed feelings about the new “Terrible Teacher” meme. It’s really hard not to say some of these things. Sometimes turning a question back to a student is good andragogy (the word pedagogy should only be applied to…
Countdown to Sunflower Season
I’ve always dug sunflower season: a last brilliant gasp of summer before autumn. Every sunflower season for the last 3 or 4 years we’ve made a point to find a first rate sunflower field for photo ops with the family. …
That’ll teach me.
Took a risk and modified an icebreaker. My first class was brutal, but the second class were kind. It was all in good fun tho. I have high hopes for my classes this semester. Languageses>en YahooCE hope
Types of students
Need to talk about taxonomy of student archetypes. Colleague identified the Tourist. At another famous off campus blog an anonymous community college teacher went a litter farther. http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/07/developmental-grab-bag.html Maybe for an activity students could do taxonomy of college teachers?
Migration
Welcome to Greg Dixon’s edublog. I’ve migrated my most recent blog of research, teaching activities and articles of personal interest from blogger at http://dixoncomp.blogspot.com/. Interesting how well the images and comments came through, but the text (font and such) looks off…
SQUIRREL!
Been thinking about the squirrel meme lately. It started in the pixar movie UP! A dog is given a device that enables him to speak English. We like him and he wants to please, but every time he sees a…