This entry is part 2 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyOne of the reasons I love to teach is that I get to learn. Be it from my students or the people who come to our class… every semester I acquire new knowledge, ideas, and perspectives thanks to what happens in the classroom. As(…)
The first week of the second semester is done and over… I could tell because I was face down on the couch at about 6 p.m.last night wondering if it really was too soon to go to bed (the answer: no). I am starting this term a bit off kilter. Our Educational Technology Specialist(…)
This entry is part 3 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyLast summer I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel back in time. Okay not really, but in many ways it felt as if I had. For the first time in 30 years, I returned to Colombia. It dawned on me, as I mentioned(…)
This entry is part 6 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good fortune to work with creative and talented people who value not only the need to create tools that facilitate learning, but tools that also are open, available for sharing, and heck, are(…)
It is the last day of the winter break and grades are due tomorrow. Which means, of course, that I am doing everything BUT posting my grades. It’s not that I haven’t finished reviewing my students work and their self evaluations…I have, that’s done (and I will be blogging about that soon). It’s just the(…)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb31/6604485775 It is that wonderful time at the end of the calendar year when businesses and schools are closed and family members are home, together. Here at our house, in between the Scrabble board game smack downs and the Sudoku marathons, interspersed between the hours of sleeping, cooking and eating, I have been trying to(…)
This entry is part 11 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyA few people have asked to have a peek at the blogging tool that I use for my Spanish conversation class. Knowing that, I had great plans to make a photochop images with arrows and numbers and what nots….and then gave up and just(…)
This entry is part 12 of 35 in the series Teaching Transparently [note: this post has been sitting in draft mode for far too long. Bryan and Jim: I apologize. Time got away from me, but now that I am gearing up — and panicking– about preparing my own anti-syllabus yet again for HISP 205,(…)
This entry is part 14 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyIt has been a busy spring, what with our infamous birds and a remarkably rough and tumble college admission process for my eldest son. My energies, needless to say, have been diverted away from this space. There has been a lot of chatter recently(…)
This entry is part 15 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyThis semester I did not create a planned, hyper-managed “if it is Tuesday we will be doing this” sort of syllabus. And yes,as in the past I was worried that I might be making a mistake. The nagging voices returned…Would I be less of(…)
(many thanks to George Brett for the lead via Twitter on this great collage generating tool) It has been far too quiet here, I know, and I am a wee bit ashamed to admit there are waaaay too many blogposts in the “draft” mode that I simply have not had time to tweak and publish.(…)
Yes it has been a while since I have blogged, I admit it. There is this pesky little thing called the end of the semester that we are dealing with which, as we all know, is the time when technology (yes I am talking to you Dell Profiles) and time sort of collapse and compress(…)