http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/ This is my collection of Sugarpackets.]]> en-us 2009-11-05T19:08:22-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/034002.html I couldn't last forever, could I? No, I'm not invincible, it seems. I woke up feeling achy. Then my head hurt. I went to work anyway. I couldn't get warm. I cuddled into my sweater coat in my task chair... KarissaKilgore 2009-11-05T19:08:22-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033927.html Updates noted with an asterisk (*). Trying to stay positive. Trying to stay afloat with classes amid thesis madness. Spent Daylight Saving Time sleeping, as expected. I think I averted a cold and/or the flu by getting decent sleep this... KarissaKilgore 2009-11-02T19:28:35-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033852.html I'm posting this article for myself and anyone else out there who needs help writing a teaching philosophy. I read this once, but I need to read it again--especially because the teaching philosophy is integral to getting a job... or... ENGL 688 KarissaKilgore 2009-10-28T18:36:34-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033830.html Updates noted with an asterisk (*). I'm almost there. What's difficult now is that friends are calling to make plans for Thanksgiving and I just can't get my brain to think past November 16th (for obvious reasons). Now that I'm... KarissaKilgore 2009-10-27T19:48:43-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033768.html So I'm at my friend's house yesterday after my presentation at the EAPSU conference and we're about to eat lunch together. She made scrumptious salads for us. I go to take a bite and I have this sudden stabbing pain... KarissaKilgore 2009-10-25T08:30:45-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033666.html Updates noted with an asterisk (*). Closer and closer to the deadline! But I'm still progressing, and proud of it. Complete thesis recordings. Done 9/22/09. This took longer than anticipated. I would have been okay with that if it hadn't... KarissaKilgore 2009-10-19T20:02:50-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033517.html Updates noted with an asterisk (*). More progress! I am working harder than I ever have in my life. (I only wish that "life" would stop getting in the way... I will make it all worthwhile! Complete thesis recordings. Done... KarissaKilgore 2009-10-13T20:20:03-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033516.html When I'm writing and I'm lost in my words, my fingers moving deftly over the keys, my mind far from where I sit, sometimes I get the feeling I'm being watched. And I am. By my dog, Trixie. She's curled... Trixie KarissaKilgore 2009-10-13T20:15:01-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033439.html Updates noted with an asterisk (*). I'm making progress, and oh does it feel good! Complete thesis recordings. Done 9/22/09. This took longer than anticipated. I would have been okay with that if it hadn't meant using up more vacation... KarissaKilgore 2009-10-09T16:03:00-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033431.html My students with GPLC are two men, one Turkish and one Japanese. They are both permanent residents, and are looking to improve their English skills. I got my textbooks from the Council too. Still leafing through them, but they seem... ENGL 688 KarissaKilgore 2009-10-09T07:55:44-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033381.html For my ESL/EFL Methodology course, we're doing instructional design projects. Fortunately for me, my teacher is kind enough to let me make some of my work for my Practicum course do double duty. I am outlining the course I'll be... ENGL 688 KarissaKilgore 2009-10-06T18:21:47-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033325.html You cannot save WHILE running Spell Check. (At least in the Mac version you can't... and it's crashed on me twice now when I get to the word "co-constructed" in a transcription. Argh!)... KarissaKilgore 2009-10-04T15:03:57-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033324.html Time keeps ticking whether I want it to or not, sadly, so I'm staying on track by crossing off goals. Note: Cheering me to the finish line is acceptable. Complete thesis recordings. Done 9/22/09. This took longer than anticipated. I... KarissaKilgore 2009-10-04T13:02:02-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033321.html I keep thinking about all my SHU friends that were in the education program when we were all undergraduates. They've all been teaching for one or two years now, and they might as well be pros on topics like classroom... ENGL 688 KarissaKilgore 2009-09-30T09:49:37-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KarissaKilgore/033320.html I'm the apprentice to the masters in this practicum experience, learning the alchemical processes for recreating what is beginning to feel more like magic and myth than concrete learning. Some of the stuff in these chapters (3-6) makes me feel... ENGL 688 KarissaKilgore 2009-09-22T08:55:47-05:00