September 2004
Sunday 26 September 2004
- Teaching the Odd Course - Today I was directed to a website for the "Top Ten Odd College Courses" buried under MSN Encarta's webpage on College. And as I read, I wondered: Should I be worried that I've actually taught one of these "oddities" before (to wit: "The Horror Film in Context")? Actually, I found... (13:39 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Saturday 18 September 2004
- Outrageously Theatrical Teaching - Earlier in the week Jerz's Literacy Weblog pointed to a news story on The Denver Channel about a teacher who tore a bible in half in front of her classroom during a discussion of Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, in order to illustrate the concept of censorship. Sure, it might... (20:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 14 September 2004
- Writing Skills Neglected - The National Commission on Writing has released an important study today of the role of writing skills (and needs) in the American workplace: "Writing: A Ticket to Work . . . Or a Ticket Out, A Survey of Business Leaders". The whole .pdf file of the report is worth saving... (10:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 12 September 2004
- Back to the Front - I've been moping a little bit this weekend because -- after a year's "release" from teaching the freshman composition course (my first "break" from teaching basic writing classes in twelve years of teaching) -- I'm back at "the front lines" of what many teachers would term a "service" course (i.e.,... (14:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Friday 3 September 2004
- Writing a Teacher's Guide - Because my flash fiction collection, 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, was getting some attention from creative writing teachers -- and because I know some folks were teaching selected excerpts to various classes -- my publisher and I thought it might be worthwhile to produce a free teacher's guide/reader's guide to... (11:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Wednesday 1 September 2004
- International Statistics - Loyal reader Joe W. sent me a link to the educational information on NationMaster.com, an index that compares international statistics, particularly interested in the comparisons of starting salaries for teachers worldwide and the differences in the number of teaching weeks per year. This is excellent information -- I learned a... (20:03 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)