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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 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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100 Day Project – Day 56 – The Stream of Life

November 10th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

100 Day Project – Day 56 – 10:16 p.m.   “Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.”        Mr. Rogers   Indeed it is.   But, it’s an illusion worth keeping.  Today I’m thinking that life is full, life is complicated, life is complicated, life leaves me [...]

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100 Day Project – Day 55 – Pride

November 9th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

100 Day Project – Day 55 – 9:26 p.m. A quote from an email a colleague sent me today as a result of her visiting one of my classes during Open Classroom Week  (a week where faculty volunteer to open their classes to other faculty and staff to visit and also to visit other classrooms [...]

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100 Day Project – Day 54 – Pull up a chair

November 8th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

100 Day Project – Day 54 – 9:00 pm Today was Advising Day at the community college where I work – a day to sit with your Advisor (for those students who choose to, of course), and talk about your goals, where your studies are going, how they are going, what you want to be [...]

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100 Day Project – Day 53 – Innovators

November 7th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Books, Children, College students, Education, Important People, Quote of the Week, Reading

100 Day Project – Day 53 – 10:14 pm “Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society…but for me, education means making creators…you have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.”  Jean Piaget I’ve just purchased the newly published Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson  (although [...]

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100 Day Project – Day 39 – Quality

October 15th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work

100 Day Project – Day 39 – the next day at 6:34….. “It is important to ask and answer this question:  What do students need to know and be able to do “out there” as a result of their work in our classrooms.”     Ruth Stiehls   The Outcomes Primer Exactly!  I ask myself this constantly.  At [...]

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100 Day Project – Day 37 – Mark Twain

October 12th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. – The Prince and the Pauper Supposing is good, but finding out is better. – Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain’s Autobiography   That’s all I have to say today.  It’s been a day of deep learning, excitement over the transformation that learning brings, and the [...]

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100 Day Project – Day 34 – Gratefulness

October 9th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Work

100 Day Project – Day 34 – 8:10 p.m. ‘There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.’ Frederico Fellini Film Director A beautiful day today — glorious sun, a not so glorious autumn color due to so much rain, good smells and too much food at the [...]

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