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HERE is just ANOTHER reason YOU SHOULD BE BLOGGING, people! Last night, I went to my personal blog and dinked around... skimmed the early months of the year to see what I was doing at the beginning of 2007. Wow. I have c…
So, yea, this week I need to get the spring semester straightened out. Big time. But beyond that, I really would like to start off 2008 with... a new bed. A new ultra-plush-pillowtop-way-better-than-my-current-bed bed. A…
"Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead? Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead. Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it. Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?" It should be no wonder to me why I am successful in the car…
In one sitting. Just finished Tuesdays with Morrie. A Christmas gift from my parents. All I can say is, "Wow." I have a lot of re-thinking to do. Thanks Morrie & Mitch.
Not only is my vision getting blurry, but my braincells are losing power. It's time to call it. Time of death: 5:14pm.Since I couldn't work on the course I wanted to tackle today (no biggie), I jumped head first into the…
Maybe I am wrong. (It's happened before.) But when I am not at on campus in my office or in front of students, I am still thinking about how to improve it all. I'm thinking about education and how it can and should impac…
Once upon a time, I was able to enjoy my holiday breaks. You know, snowball fights and sleeping in and shopping and eating beyond excess. But now, I've become a perfectionist... slowly inching to that ugly Type A persona…
So, my mission this week... and a little bit of next week... and the week after... and parts of the coming weekends... is this: ... to a) revise english 120, then b) transform it into a 12week course for on campus (tran…
A) Four jobs I have had in my life: Telemarketer for NDSU's Alumni Association. {Living on the other side of the phone...}Tennis Instructor for little kiddies. {Fun, but got my first taste of controlling, rich parents..…
It's a Sunday evening, and unlike others who I've heard complaints from (in regards to my teacherly schedule - you know, the three months 'off' and the long holiday 'break'), I just finished up another hour or so of "wor…
Today will consist of eating, eating, and eating. With a sprinkle of grading. And a teaspoon of a 10am meeting.
This week... I'm like the little engine that could... I have about 3.5 classes "checkmarked" (the .5 is due to one class having 15 more min to hand in their Shortfolios) & 2 will get wrapped up Monday... I have two c…
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." -e.e. cummings...
While the weekend was quite the relaxer, I still pondered a few things I hadn't thought of in awhile. 1) Siblings are like significant others, "you can't live with 'em and you can't live without them." 2) People can chan…
I'm in a hurry to get things done/Oh I rush and rush until life's no fun/All I really gotta do is live and die/But I'm in a hurry and don't know why...
Michael: "I hope to return a changed human being." Jim: "That'd be great."
I've successfully been balancing a) keeping an eye out for more things to grade, b) working on next semester's 110, and c) preparing more of the Creative Writing class. It's a lot of items to juggle, but I am managing. I…
So, I was SO PUMPED to have my grading caught up that my mind was whirling over what to work on this afternoon... so, I tried to dive into more of the Creative Writing prep for next semester, but I really didn't know whe…
I'M CAUGHT UP ON GRADING. FOR NOW. BETTER NOT GET TOO COCKY.So, Wade was right. The newest Council Chronicle (November 2007, Volume 17, No. 2) is full of information ("The Shift to 21st-Century Literacies") that not only…
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we…
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.” Jawaharal Nehru
“If you're good at everything you're great at nothing.”
We have broken all the blackboards so the teachers cannot write. We have painted all the toilets black and all the lockers white.We have torn up all the math books and we've locked the school's front door. There won't be…
“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.” –Suzanne Gordon
I'm printing off my evaluations from my online course; it's not looking like the best way to start a week. Some students love to take cheap shots on instructors when completing these things. "What do you like least about…
BRIEF HISTORY OF RHETORIC... " A written rhetoric arose in this century in a form that is commonly called the product method of teaching composition. When I was a freshman taking composition classes in the 1980's, this i…
NUTS AND BOLTS WEB SITE: "I've always been surprised by how many students don't seem to think much about the appearance of their work. But consider that your reader's first impression of your work will come from its phys…
We're in the MIDDLE OF A SNOWSTORM (first major snowfall of the year = 6-10 inches may fall...) and I'm in the MIDDLE of assessing the rest of my Online English 120 Paper 3s; out of the fourteen papers, only two have be…