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 […]
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., […]
Reconstructing a webpage
Since students often do use my webpages during the semester, I need to make sure that my main work site is current, and I’ve decided to overhaul it completely. Aaarrrggghhh! Well, I fiddled this morning with a cascading style sheet and have begun editing the text this afternoon. It should be done shortly—well, by the […]
Ramping up
By Sherman Dorn on August 24, 2001
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, […]
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