I am one of those people, I use a Mac. My schools and online students do not know this, as I am mainstream about most things loaded on it. I use Safari, but have Firefox loaded for certain application. I use the MS Office 2008...
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The fact that there is a primetime TV show about community colleges is another sign that these institutions are now part of our mainstream life and popular culture. In a.
[private]Pedagogy is the art of getting people to learn. As college professors, teaching people how to learn is at the heart of our profession. The activities we assign need to.
This week is Spring Break. Well, sort of. No, it is, but not necessarily for me. It's break for some schools, some instructors, some kids, but not all of them. One of my colleges is, in fact, on break for the week. I teach two...
Piss Poor Prof, also known as Burnt-Out Adjunct, describes the adjunct as being "the academic equivalent of a fry cook." http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2009/06/15/adjunct Then there is Dr. Burton Fletcher, who calls adjuncts "the.
One of the schools I teach for originally had a canned curriculum from which all instructors taught . The content was good overall and obviously written by professionals. There were.
This blog has been geared toward introductory classes and those teaching them, since my assumption is that a blog on teaching tips will be most attractive to new professors, and new professors largely teach the introductory courses. This is also a blog geared toward adjuncts,...
I love email. I have been using it for over ten years and it has gone from an amusing novelty to one of the most important communication methods I use..
I was out walking with a friend last week and the conversation turned, as it often does, to school. She'd just finished her college-level writing class and was sharing her.
by Jodi Menees I have a friend who teaches online at over 10 institutions and I was shocked when she told me that she does not give out her phone number and does not think online students need access to their instructors that way. I...
