By Jenny Ortiz During my office hour either I'm staring at the walls in my office praying for a student (even one that isn't in my class) to show up to alleviate my boredom, or I'm so busy prepping I don't have time to even...
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By Kat Kiefer-Newman From their laptops, their Blackberries, their iPhones, and now their iPads they Tweet. They Tweet in the library, the parking lot, walking along the pathways, in the.
By Jenny Ortiz Smart-ass. Too harsh? We'v all had the wise guy, the smart aleck, the know it all in the class who spends more time disrupting the class than.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman There's a funny line from the film "Pulp Fiction," when Esmeralda asks Butch what his name means. He answers, "I'm American, Honey, our names don't mean [bleep]." It's a family show, but you can use your imagination. But what is in a...
By Dorinda Fox A lightbulb went off over my head the other day while I sat listening to the budgetary woes of an academic department during a faculty meeting. Dire solutions.
By Melissa McDonald Every term, I always have at least one student who says, quite brazenly, some variation of "I hate being forced to write, and I'm in this class.
