March 2006
Wednesday 29 March 2006
- Gifts for Professors - Hi Michael, I found your website by putting the phrase "recommendation letter appreciation gift" into Google. After reading your blog on writing recommendation letters I felt compelled to email you and ask you my question. A former professor of mine wrote a recommendation letter on my behalf for a... (14:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Saturday 25 March 2006
- You Gotta Teach this Essay! - You Gotta Teach this Essay! is a new weblog (from the editors of Brevity), which allows teacher to recommend short, creative non-fiction and interesting memoirs for the classroom (especially, I'd imagine, the college writing classroom). A good resource with lots of good reads: this blog exists to share information on... (12:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 14 March 2006
- How do you challenge and motivate gifted students? - Edutopia magazine -- published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation -- publishes a neat regular department called, "Sage Advice": a collection of tips from teachers in answer to a posed question. The latest issue's question is: How do you challenge and motivate gifted students? You can read my answer in... (00:19 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 10 March 2006
- Getting Tenure - Happy news. I received tenure in my position as Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University this week. I'm grateful. To mark the occasion, soon I'll be writing letters to the important teachers I've had in my life, just to share the good news and to let them know... (23:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 9 Comments)
Tuesday 7 March 2006
- Take an Activity Break - Hot on the heels of my posting about how to make lectures more permeable and interactive, Richard Reis' wonderful resource, Tomorrow's Professor, has posted a very helpful essay advocating the use of "Activity Breaks" to enhance and increase class participation. Since the attention span of almost all students is between... (12:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)