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 […]
Entries from November 19th, 2011
100 Day Project – Day 61 – Exhaustion
November 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 61 – Exhaustion · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Teaching & Learning, Website of the Week, Work
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100 Day Project – Day 60 – Transformation and Elephants
November 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 60 – Transformation and Elephants · 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 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 59 – Community College · 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 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 58 – The Mad that you feel · 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 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 57 – Doing · 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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