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Category Archives: First Year Seminar
Grades in the Seminar
Yesterday for the first time all semester a student raised a question about grades. (Clearly this doesn’t mean yesterday was the first time students have thought about it.) He mentioned that his mother asked how he was doing and he … Continue reading
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“Teaching” from a Distance
Late Friday afternoon I found out I had to be away Monday thru Wednesday, which meant I would not be able to attend the first year seminar Tuesday. What to do? Saturday morning while listening to our new President Bill … Continue reading
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Has the bubble burst?
Okay, I admit to being an optimist, perhaps even an incorrigible one. Today I ran across one of my first year seminar students and I asked her: How is our class really going? She said, “fine.” But then when I … Continue reading
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Second Stab at Collective Learning
Before Class: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how my students found it difficult to collaborate to develop a single consensus definition of globalization. This week we’ve been trying a second time to develop a class consensus, this … Continue reading
Rethinking Grades and Learning
Is learning fundamentally a flow or a stock? Is learning about improving your skills and knowledge or about being skilled and knowledgeable? I ask these questions because often it appears to me that we’re grading what students know more than … Continue reading
Are my students genuinely thinking about globalization?
I couldn’t resist posting this clever quotation from Anya: The fact that you can buy shoes from Italy and listen to Buddhist songs while troubled about whether the imported beef you had for lunch contained mad cow disease is a … Continue reading
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ePortfolios?
I just finished reading Matt Vilano’s article on ePortfolios in the September issue of Campus Technology. I’ve been intrigued by the notion of ePortfolios for some time now, but I’ve never really taken the time to understand them. I may … Continue reading
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Response to Bob
Bob raised an important question on one of my previous postings that demands a response. He asked: What has happened to instruction in the material that the course is supposed to be about–namely, globalization? My purpose in teaching this course … Continue reading
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Liftoff in the Seminar?
Today we conducted the third in our series of tech tools sessions, this one introducing students to flickr. After getting students registered, we (and by “we” I mean Martha and Jerry) showed the students how to locate photos tagged with … Continue reading
Fourth Class in the Seminar
Before Class: Today the plan is to start from the students’ initial personal definitions of globalization and develop a tentative class consensus definition. I reviewed the definition that my senior seminar came up with last Spring, and I really like … Continue reading
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