I get tired of hearing people ask how many hours I teach then say, “God. I wish I only had to work 15 hours a week.” Bill Self, who coaches KU Basketball, has 40 games a year, and each game…
Curriculum Epistemology
The three biggest challenges facing us related to English Composition are: Privacy/ ownership: this includes shared creation of information on plagiarism and copyright (eg look at the caption on the meme I grabbed. Shouldn’t it read http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1333238359437_4954126.png?) Resource management: that includes…
Fun online reading speed test from the WSJ
Thank reddit for sharing a fun online reading speed and comprehension tool from The Wall Street Journal. I just took the test because I like to say I’ve done everything I ask my students to do, and since they shared…
Using RatemyProfessor.com to Evaluate Courses.
What is the college’s priority, learning or making things easy and convenient? When it comes to parking, I have no problem eliminating faculty parking spaces, but when it comes to the goal of the college, learning should come first. It…
Types of Students
College Misery breaks down taxonomies of students with frightening regularity. I want to think that if we discussed theses we could better communicate with with first generation students who don’t know what to expect and / or have unrealistic expectations.…
When talk isn’t what one says but establishing dominance.
Funny thing, research says this happens regularly. Men are supposed to be worse than women, but both genders use class discussions to establish dominance apart from meaningful communication. But isn’t finding your place in a class relevant? I practice a…
10 things incoming frosh should know.
Reddit has a thread where he asked college students “What high school habits should incoming freshmen stop before coming to college” The following list is what the author summarized from his question’s response. For the love of god, do not…
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?