February 2004
Sunday 29 February 2004
- Is Teaching Worth It? - The responses to my previous post raised the issue of whether or not it pays to teach. Here are some randomly discovered answers and datasets on teacher/faculty salaries, for the curious: Is it worth it to become a teacher and make nearly nothing? Want to be at Teacher? Listen up... (14:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)
Wednesday 25 February 2004
- Teachers are Poor Terrorists - The edublog community is buzzing with ire, in response to news reports that US Secretary of Education Rod Paige referred to the National Education Association -- 2.7 million teachers strong -- as a “terrorist organization.” In fact, the NEA is formally asking for Paige's resignation, while Paige himself is issuing... (13:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Monday 23 February 2004
- Teaching Rereading - In my literary criticism course, we read one title -- Tim O'Brien's fantastic work of metafiction, In the Lake of the Woods -- and then apply a different school of theory to it about every week. The novel lends itself well to this analysis, and while we also study a... (12:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 7 Comments)
Sunday 15 February 2004
- Language is a Virus - The inbox for my personal account is STILL flooded with something like 250 messages a day from the latest computer threat that's going around. The Novarg/MyDoom/MIMAIL worm is worse than the flu this winter! It's a pain, but thankfully my system is safeguarded with the latest antivirus software updates and... (21:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 11 February 2004
- Plagiarism is Good - I read an interesting essay (found and responded to at Jerz' Literacy Weblog) by Russell Hunt that articulates why the problems that plagiarism poses for writing teachers are all good for teaching. I agreed with much of what Hunt says, but I also felt it was too counter-intuitive to buy.... (14:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)
Tuesday 10 February 2004
- Demonstrating Good Teaching with E-mail and Other Technologies - Demonstrating Good Teaching by David G. Brown -- recently published in Syllabus magazine -- is a good reminder that teachers who integrate lots of technology in their courses may have to take special steps to show its value to their administrators and colleagues. Especially those who are up for tenure... (08:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 4 February 2004
- Politics in the Classroom: Ito and Iraq - Dennis Jerz, my colleague right down the hall at SHU, posts an interesting deconstruction of press "spin" regarding Elizabeth Ito, a teacher who was terminated for promoting her views against the Iraq War in the classroom. Ito is predominantly seen as a victim in most media treatments of this event.... (10:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)