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Entries from November 30th, 2011

100 Day Project – Day 66 – Echo Smartpen

November 30th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work

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 – Persistance

November 28th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work

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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100 Day Project – Day 64 – passion

November 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

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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100 Day Project – Day 63 – Deep

November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work

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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100 Day Project – Day 62 – Syllabi

November 21st, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, My Goals, Teaching & Learning, 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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100 Day Project – Day 61 – Exhaustion

November 19th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Teaching & Learning, Website of the Week, Work

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 – Transformation and Elephants

November 17th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Teaching & Learning, Work

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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100 Day Project – Day 59 – Community College

November 16th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Teaching & Learning

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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100 Day Project – Day 58 – The Mad that you feel

November 15th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Important People, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work

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 – Doing

November 14th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Important People, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work

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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