100 Day Project – Day 29 – 8:03 p.m. Less is more in so many ways in life. Today, personally, I could sure do with less grief. Too much to explain, but too many losses too quickly in the last three months. Professionally, less is more in terms of my assigned readings for my classes […]
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100 Day Project – Day 29 – Less is More
October 4th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 29 – Less is More · 100 Days Project, College students, Musings, Reading, Teaching & Learning, Work
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100 Day Project – Day 28 – Reading
October 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 28 – Reading · 100 Days Project, College students, Musings, Reading, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 28 – 12:49 p.m. First a word about the numbering of days: For those of you who care, and frankly, I’m not sure anyone does, somehow I skipped from Day 22 to Day 28. In my real life that was only 3 days – the weekend – since I last […]
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100 Day Project – Day 22 – Honesty
September 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 22 – Honesty · 100 Days Project, family, Important People, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 22 – 9:40 a.m. (a day late) When teaching is challenging, ask yourself what Mr. Rogers would do. (Those of my readers who know me, know that Mr. Rogers is my all time favorite person in the world – not counting family, of course.) I’ve had a great week teaching, […]
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100 Day Project – Day 21 – Librarians
September 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 21 – Librarians · 100 Days Project, librarians, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 21 – 8:04 p.m. Today at the community college where I teach the librarians hosted a Banned Book reading. The librarians had a few excerpts to read, and others brought readings as well. We heard segments from Harry Potter, Lolita, And Tango Makes Three and the entire Howl. I was […]
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100 Day Project – Day 20 – Pride
September 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 20 – Pride · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 20 – 7:41 p.m. Today, my grasp of the craft of teaching was there for me in one of my classes. In a course – a 100 level class – with a focus on learning to bring creative experiences to the young child – I changed my plans completely 20 […]