Teatrekkers could be seen last night at the first of our 2012 Winter Salon evenings. With a dozen friends we learned from Mary Lou and Robert Heiss (the authors of four really excellent books) just a tiny bit about Chinese teas: its origins, how and where what we were tasting was grown, how to brew [...]
100 Day Project — Finished Well, I do have to admit defeat – at least in terms of being able to blog for 100 days in a row. I made it to 66 days spread over about 90 days (including weekends). I learned a lot. I learned I do have something to write about – [...]
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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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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
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 – 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, [...]
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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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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