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 37 – Mark Twain
October 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 37 – Mark Twain · 100 Days Project, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 36 – Regurgitate
October 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 36 – Regurgitate · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Musings, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 36 – 9:55 (This is yesterday’s posting.) This afternoon on a walk with my five-year-old granddaughter, we stopped to admire a few ants — we were already carrying a Wooly Bear caterpillar in a jar with us (doesn’t everyone know that even caterpillars need afternoon exercise?) — and she informed […]
100 Day Project – Day 32 – Play
October 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 32 – Play · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Play
The three day weekend starting tomorrow reminds me of the importance of play for adults! Next week in my Introduction to Early Childhood Education, we’ll talk about play: what it is, the stages of play, how to support it, how to help children who don’t have a multiple assortment of ways to do it, and […]
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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 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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