Melissa Miller

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Ask, and you shall receive! Awhile back I wrote a blog about my desire to become a student again. Oh, how I missed the back-to-school feeling, the excitement of the new syllabus and mapping out the course…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. True headline: "Campus Shock: Michigan Professor Actually Takes Nude Pictures...With Student." Wow. Just wow. Seriously? Where do I begin? When you first read that headline, since you are most likely an…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Are your students prepared for your class when they walk through your door? I read an interesting article about the preparedness (or lack thereof) of many college students for what awaits them in higher…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Do you ever miss being a student? I don't mean a student of the world, or a life-long learner, as those of us in education tend to be. I don't mean the Chris Farley in Tommy Boy or Rodney Dangerfield in…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Do you ever miss being a student? I don't mean a student of the world, or a life-long learner, as those of us in education tend to be. I don't mean the Chris Farley in Tommy Boy or Rodney Dangerfield in…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I just read a great book. It's titled, "The Googlization of Everything," by Siva Vaidhyanathan and it discusses the impacts of Google technology on our world. Of particular interest to me were the chapters…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. My husband and I belong to a poker group that meets about once per month. It's a casual game, and we also take turns cooking dinner for each other. Last night was our turn to host, and as we were eating and…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. "O Ever-failing trust / in mortal strength!" - John Milton Dr. Johnson beat me to the punch with his May blog, "Do Students Need to Trust Us to Learn?" This is a topic I have been reflecting upon…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I was recently writing something that required quantitative analysis. Numbers are not my strong suit. I managed to do well in math classes in school, but it didn't come easily or naturally to me - I'm more of…

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I am writing to you from underneath the hair dryer, with my hair in foils, and the shower cap holding it all in place. I am at the downtown hair salon, where others are leisurely reading magazines and…