Posted in 3485, 3484, 3486, 3487, 3488, 3483, 2968, my, blogging, the, students, and, General on Jul 26th, 2008 Comments Off
about blogging in my classes. What is my method? How do I communicate to students the reasons for blogging, and how do I get them to commit to the exploratory spirit of the endeavor in a school context that emphasizes frequent incremental assessments of items on a task-list?
As I talked to Jim, I realized that […]
Posted in 3046, 3047, 3045, 3044, 3043, 3048, 3049, 3053, 3052, 3051, 3050, 2766, 2754, and, today, students, the, an, 2742, 2752, a, 2757, 2756, General on Jan 24th, 2008 Comments Off
Courtesy of the University of Mary Washington Computer Science Department, I and an SRO crowd of students, faculty, and staff got to hear a fascinating talk today by Dr. Eric Miller (CSAIL, MIT). There’s no questioning the depth, intelligence, or intensity of his commitment to a data web; he made the best and most inclusive […]
Posted in teacher, mind, open, cleverer, student, bold, creative, hard, my, students, bear, committed, General on Sep 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
I tell my students again and again that I’m a better teacher when they’re better students, and that part of being a better student is not just being a cleverer student but being a more open and committed student. Bear down hard, be prepared for class, be creative and bold, and above all let me […]
Posted in medievalist in residence, kolve, pronunciation, lines, doubt, differ, canterbury, tales, students, prologue, hard, details, philologists, the, my, kennedy, terry, imitate, eighteen, ach, General on Sep 20th, 2007 Comments Off
With apologies to V. A. (Del) Kolve, whose pronunciation I am trying hard to imitate (listen to number six here for an example of Mr. Kolve’s reading), and Terry Kennedy, our dynamic medievalist-in-residence, who will no doubt differ with me on certain details (philologists! ach, du lieber!), I offer here a recitation of the first […]