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Second Assignment for this Week’s TLT Fellows Meeting
The second thing we were asked to do for this week’s meeting was to identify a couple of bloggers from our disciplines. I can recommend four blogs: 1. Grasping Reality With Both Hands: Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal – Very high … Continue reading
TLT Fellows Projects
I have the privilege this year of participating on our school’s Teaching and Learning Technology Fellows program, a faculty development program for instructors interested in incorporating instructional technology into their teaching. Participants meet weekly for a semester and explore IT … Continue reading
AAUP and the Future of Higher Education
I had the opportunity this week of attending a lunch discussion with Ernie Benjamin, Interim General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors. The session was very informal, with faculty coming and going as needed while Dr. Benjamin discussed … Continue reading
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Lanny Arvan on Plagiarism
Lanny Arvan has a very thoughtful recent post on plagiarism in blogging. You can find it here.
It’s not just semantics
I returned the first exam in my intro course the other day. The average grade was a bit lower than normal. I wonder if that reflects the somewhat higher than normal number of first year students in it. I did … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, The Experiment
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Journalists on Social Networking Software
There were two articles published last week in popular media on social networking software: The Wall Street Journal: More, but not Merrier: Web sites that help you collect and ‘manage’ friends. (HT to Dave Moore) The Washington Post: With Friends … Continue reading
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The grade’s the thing
Between my first year seminar and two intro courses, I am teaching a lot of freshmen this semester. I really enjoy freshmen. They are fresh; they generally do what you ask of them (e.g. readings), and they show more progress … Continue reading
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UMWBlogs, Baby; They’re taking over!
I was reading the first metacognitive activity submitted by students in my intro course, prior to discussing it tomorrow. (I’ve decided to move that discussion outside of class time to avoid the potential problems I ran into last year. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in The Experiment
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Quick note on teaching my intro course
One of the ideas I explored this summer was the finding that students bring misconceptions into a course that need to be explicitly refuted if learning is to be transferable. It turns out that there is not that much known … Continue reading
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A Challenging Student, in more ways than one
I have a challenging student in my intro course this semester. In twenty-five years of teaching, I’ve never had a student quite like this one. He appears bright. The first week, he spoke up regularly in class. Since then he … Continue reading
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