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Lately, I've been REALLY REALLY REALLY trying to focus on those students who "get it" and "show up" and listen and all that basic stuff (I mean, I had lunch with Richard yesterday; he's one of those students who has to h…
Utter Disappointment: Britney Spears' performance on last night's MTV Music Awards. And Sarah Silverman's comedic attempt afterwards was worse - if that's possible. Utter Exhaustion: Ran almost 5 miles this morning - kin…
It's so weird to be organized. It's like I've turned a new leaf, or whatever "they" say. I use my filing cabinet now - how odd of this used-to-be-pile-r. And, happily, Allison found me more new fonts for the creation of …
A new study on the horizon... instead of coding a community blog (where students aren't required to write), I'm going to collect Class Blog entries from a few classes (some online, some on-campus using eCompanion) as wel…
So, an idea has popped up in my head twice this week... instead of having a massive genres scavenger hunt (which I still could do on a smaller, more focused scale), I would have students take a genre and transform/transl…
The vibe in this summer school class (online) feels more upbeat than past classes... it could just be my attitude or the students or the fact that the class has been revised so much by me, that it's flowing together bett…
So I stroll back into the office... I am thinking that I would love to start organizing everything (what's on my computer/USBs, what's on my web site, what's in my filing cabinets, what's piled up on my bookcase, etc), Y…
Popped in the office for a quick second. Or 17 or 700 or... 47,000.I am still wondering what to do with the first units of that online English 120 course. I want to focus the first units on controversy & people/them,…
Well, I put in grades just in case I don't want to venture up here tomorrow... I probably will though since I didn't get the start on the online English 120 that I wanted to. I think I have wrapped up English 105 well, …
It was an itty bitty teeny weeny... to-do list for today & tomorrow: - Gather items for preparation (all classes placed in different folders: 105, 110, 120, 240) & find items I'd like to revise (look back in notes from c…