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First week recap
Numbers The registrar’s website tonight shows 40 students in my undergraduate class, up from 33 the first day of class. We’ll see who shows up tomorrow morning. (I better!) Nine showed Thursday night in the graduate class, just about perfect. Talkative or quiet? I like students who are willing to talk productively (which most student […]
First day of classes
Thirty-three students came to my lower-division Social Foundations of Education class this morning. Since the cap is 45, and a few other sections are being cancelled, I expect a surge on Thursday. That’s no real problem, and I’m willing to have such "section refugees." The class was quiet. A plurality at the moment are in […]
Ramping up
And I thought the summer was busy… I’m up for tenure this year, teaching two courses, being a director/principal investigator of one small project, associate director of another (larger) one, and evaluator of a third, co-coordinator of a program within a professional association, co-editor of a book review project that’s just started up this year, […]
Lemonade
I’ve reconstructed my work site and, after discussing a spate of plagiarism with colleagues, drafted a sometimes-ascerbic tutorial on plagiarism. I was wondering what to call it, perhaps the "irreverent plagiarism tutorial"—and then thought that some readers would think the "irreverent" referred to plagiarism. Then I thought about how my experiences with student plagiarism (e.g., […]
Breathing again
By Sherman Dorn on October 2, 2001
Almost a month after the last entry here, I have a life again. What intervened? The September 11 attacks, a tropical storm that shut down campus the 14th, and then finishing the tenure application process. I had intended most of my entries this semester to be about teaching (and thus a course portfolio, in effect), […]
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