Willful or ignorant idiocy
I will admit first that, as a partisan in two overlapping battles at the University of South Florida, perhaps my view of the President’s Award for Excellence handed out over the past 6 weeks is cynical, but a colleague pointed something out to me today that flabbergasted me more than I thought possible, not from […]
Time to edit former students’ papers
I have, from the spring, the papers of two students who agreed to let me share their work with others (with their names removed). I haven’t edited them, and it’s time.
Working frantically
Before family descends over the weekend, I’m frantically trying to get some work done. Today: outlining the rest of a book proposal, grading student work, and reading.
Pleasurable work
Over the weekend, I’ve been reading parts of three memoirs I assigned my masters history of education class. I am delighted no one picked the fourth option, but all of the memoirs are wonderful, and I need to finish my own assignment before class tonight to discuss the memoirs as primary documents (historical sources) in […]
Overloaded
By Sherman Dorn on February 28, 2003
Another weekend of … too much work, despite my spouse’s probable arguments against it. Things to do: Read undergraduate papers and quizzes Reading work of a student who finally submitted stuff to end an incomplete on a course from a prior semester Prepare another student sample paper for undergraduate class Nag authors from a collective […]
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