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 63 – Deep
November 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 63 – Deep · 100 Days Project, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
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100 Day Project – Day 62 – Syllabi
November 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 62 – Syllabi · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, My Goals, Teaching & Learning, Work
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, […]
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
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 – 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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