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Travel-time Saturday
Profgrrrrl is off to Thailand for a month. My son and mother are coming back from Arizona, where they spent a week on and around the Colorado River. (My mother just called me from the Houston airport on layover.) I have been grading student work today so I have a little less on my plate […]
YackPack
Practical question to my 2.71828183… readers: has anyone used YackPack for classwork? I’m realizing that for the first time in 5 years, I’ll be teaching a course distance-learning without live chats, or at least without having to wrench each week upside down for students or me in doing so. Our LMS (Blackboard) doesn’t even have […]
K-12 teachers of history need close-reading skills
Over the weekend, the American Historical Association Council Endorsed the National Council for History Education’s Statement on Teacher Qualifications. Among the better parts of the statement is developing historical “habits of mind,” including an understanding of how to read and utilize primary sources. That phrase came from the K-5 teacher guidelines. (The 6-12 guidelines insert in […]
Grades and puns
As I left the house this afternoon for Chain Cafe, I told my dear spouse, “I’m leaving for a few hours, hopefully to finish my grading.” I swear that the pun was unintentional (and she didn’t catch it until I groaned). I only had to wait half an hour before getting my pun-ishment: the rejection […]
My unfavored things
Why do students sometimes have no clue about how word processors work? Why do they not … oh, well, let’s break into the End of Term Professor Musical Style (which Miriam Burstein aka The Little Professor does much better than I). Papers which use hard returns but not page breaks,Students who don’t even spellcheck as brain-fake,A […]