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All My Damn Requirements: The Online English 120 Version. - Read up on all the details about a MONTH before its due; there are tabs in eCompanion/eCollege about it, PPTs too, and then a handout AND example in Doc Sharing…
The anti-bell curve?? *Last column = Ds and Fs. And a better view: English 105 (first 8-week class) final grades charted... And just for the "shock" of it, a glance at the English 110 class's current grades... As …
... it's just a random Friday, or is it? ... created my very own "the week at a glance" handout. It's got my "listen to george" quotes on it & little boxes for daily lists of what to do before/in/during class. So hel…
Pre-Week Planning... 1) FYE meeting tomorrow at 2pm? Figure my FYE class out... 2) English 120: Add changes (Roundtable PR, WC, dates for quizzes, Doc Sharing - syllabi & rubric, mini-argument sample, Project 3 sampl…
Best pancakes ever! 1/2 C oats 1 C cottage cheese 6 egg whites dash of vanilla dash of cinnamon *1/2 handful of choc. chips In a blender. Then in pan coated w/Pam. Makes two servings. *My personal touch. Now for some …
Ah, crap. Why do I have to be so ambitious? Why, god, why? Or rather, why can't I leave things "as is"? Because I have just enough perfectionism in me... errrg. How annoying. So, yea, now that I've redone English 110 wi…
Goal for the day... move everything from Weeks 9-16 into Units Intro-7... then attempt to revise Units Intro-2 (three units at a time seems like a good chunk to cover each day). So... a possible schedule emerges: > T…
A new idea for my English 120 mini-assignments... I found a list of questions here that I narrowed down to 130 possible arguments. Mini-arguments that is. I think I'll have students, from time to time probably on Fridays…
Here it goes, here it goes again! Online student evals just plopped into my email. So, what's that mean? TIME TO VENT. Most people/students know that I defend students all the time. Their writing ability, mainly. Today, …
Having diagnosed myself with some small head cold + a splash of mono = another random idea for a class. ... Students rarely 'read' the chapter(s) & stuff I assign. Okay, I've noticed this. I can deal with it. However…