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If it’s Friday, I must be in Orlando
Interesting day, almost by definition, with equal dashes of intrigue, frustration, possibility, and sheer chaos. I’m in a cafe right now, waiting for this afternoon’s external advisory meeting on the state’s assessment/accountability system. We’re going to be talking with representatives of the Buros Center on Testing, and their reports for the state provide plenty of […]
Teaching about what humans do
I’ve been tagged by Craig Smith, who asks, Why Do You Teach and Why Does It Matter? after reading Dr. Crazy’s explanation of why she teaches literature. This comes on the heels of Stanley Fish’s boldly hedonistic Epistle to Philistines and the expansion on this, last night’s Epistle to Dumb-Ass Colleagues. (Okay, the posts were […]
The value of structure
I’ve finished most of the tables in the article I’m working on, so I’ll indulge myself with one last blog entry tonight. Primarily, I want to dissent gently from Timothy Burke’s concerns about strategic planning in this blog entry (which is not currently available: I receive a WordPress database error, which I hope is remedied […]
How do I get behind so quickly?
I’m preparing an article for EPAA right now, working on a Saturday night after just a week of the semester. (To answer those who’d like to nitpick: No, I’m not working on that article right now. I’m taking a break between formatting most of the text and inserting and fiddling with tables.) So much for […]
Timothy Burke beats me to the punch on interesting learning objects
In his blogging on a conference this week sponsored by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (or NITLE), Timothy Burke has raised the right questions to ask about electronic learning objects that are interactive, information-intense, and based on scholarship and the interests of great teachers: How could they be crafted to change teaching? […]