Entries from November 30th, 2011
1-Subject Notebook 1 p. 1 100 Day Project – Day 66 – 8:52 p.m. If anyone cares to try to open this document and figure out if it works; you’re welcome to it! I have an Echo Smartpen as part of a grant at my community college. With just a half-hour under my belt, I [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 65 – 8:44 a.m. Well, I must admit life has been very full — usually is – and I’m considering not continuing this Project — could I call it the 65 day project? I’ve skipped quite a few days; and see by my trusty old paper calendar that I should [...]
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Tags: blogging·conversations·learning·persistance·quit·teaching·Work
100 Day Project – Day 64 – 9:56 a.m. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
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I was told today by a student, with others agreeing, that I was a very deep person. Last class meeting, the students participated in a Literacy Month event at our college. The local Head Start bused 30 preschool children to our college’s library where we had the joy of reading one-on-one with the children, joining [...]
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Tags: Children·college·conversations·cute·deep·learning·teaching·Work
100 Day Project – Day 62 – 11:30 am One of the workshops I went to at the NEFDC Conference recently was a workshop on creating syllabi of interest. While there are several sections I must put in, I have a good deal of leeway about the rest. Although I learned that at some institutions, [...]
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Day 100 Project – Day 61 – 8:14 pm Exhaustion. This week was non-stop – all five days I was up before 6 am, and although I made it to bed most nights by 10, the days were so full, I practically ran through them. Yesterday I finished the week by going to the NEFDC [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 60 – 7:18 pm The first day of class they were shy. The first day of class they said, almost in unison, oh no, not me: I’m not going to sing, dance, and play an elephant in front of my peers! What do you want us to do? No way! [...]
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Tags: Children·college·elephant·learning·teaching·transformation
100 Day Project – Day 59 – 9:02 pm Just returned from the Greenfield Community College’s Annual Foundation Meeting where I heard Dr. Bumphus of the American Association of Community Colleges make a brief presentation. My takeaway : 2 % of the philanthropic giving to colleges is given to community colleges where 46% of all [...]
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Tags: access·college·community college·Dr. Bumphus·excellence·learning·teaching
This is all that I have to say today. Today I’m thinking about being mad and what to do about it (by the way, it’s work related, not family). Thank you, Mr. Rogers, you always know the most about being human and what that means to learning new things.
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100 Day Project – Day 57 – 8:45 p.m. “Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn.” Herbert A. Simon (One of the founders of the field of Cognitive Science and [...]
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