September 18, 2012

September 17, 2012

  • Pay Attention?

    This is meant to be geared at my students... Who don't come to class.
    I basically should tell them on the first day that I'm not going to chase them.
    This is not high school. 
    I don't care, or believe, that you were sick on a Friday afternoon.

  • And just like that...

    And just like that, I found my Hidden Point for this week.

    Students in my Online English 120 should consider reading this: 
    It has such "fake" stats as: 
    "If you add up all the photos taken on Flickr and Instagram per second, Americans are documenting history faster than history is occurring." 
    AND: 
    "If Twitter were a woman, she would be beautiful, intelligent, and never have a relationship longer than two months because she would not shut the *&^% up."
    For Bonus Points, they should create their own fake statistics about something.
    At least ten (10) of them. Yeah.
    Or, as a Plan B, maybe they want to create a list like this instead?

  • Don't Steal.

    Ain't this great? Thanks to those at Indiana University who put it together!

September 14, 2012

  • PicLit from PicLits.com
    See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

  • my thoughts in images.

     

  • My Own Press Release (#ndscs)...

    The prompt for my students today: 

    If you could send out a press release to the world about our town (Wahpeton) or the campus (NDSCS), what would it say?
    That was all I said. 
    Since I want to keep writing with them when we do this in class, here's my attempt:
    Dear Citizens of the Nation,
    We've been in the news lately, and not in a way that we like. Some say all press is good press, but this may be the exception. 
    I want to say that no matter what really, really happened on our campus (and only a few - literally - really, truly know) regarding the football player, we are not an anti-gay school. The media is taking that side. Some people WANT to believe that that is what really, really happened.
     
    This week, I even gave an AP person an interview about our very own Diversity Council on campus; that interview & our Council's efforts have not been publicized. Our professors and students (of various backgrounds) have not had their say, either. Parts of the country will want to think this way of us because we're rural, but that's an unfair assumption. Please don't lump the assumed actions of a few with all of us. 
    I would NOT teach at a place that wasn't tolerant of diverse ideas and backgrounds.
    #ndscswildcats

September 12, 2012