When I first saw the falling snow feature for WordPress, I thought the look wouldn’t work for my blog. After all, I’m teaching in Florida and just ran wearing shorts and a T-shirt. But then I thought of my desk and dining room table. I’m snowed under with papers to grade. This is that time […]
Posted from my iPhone A very filled auditorium for today’s exam. Scantrons, pencils and three versions of the exam. Only when we had distributed the exam did we realize a problem with the numbering for one exam version. Fortunately, with an announcement, the exam was corrected by the students. Do you have a story of […]
At our lunch meeting today, Paige Madsen (my lecture assistant) and I were discussing plans for the end-of-the-semester meeting with the current seven teaching assistants for Writing for Mass Communication and the new TA who will be teaching with us for next semester. We listed materials we need to have for the meeting and issues […]
A drive across town running errands was a reminder of how creative approaches to information delivery can beat the traditional approaches. I happened to listen to Ira Flatow’s Science Friday on National Public Radio. He introduced They Might Be Giants, a music group who lauched into playing and singing “Science Is Real.” The song had […]
If you haven’t been following the latest in college football fashion wear… Here are the Nike Pro Combat Uniforms — ten college teams selected to receive special uniforms and helmets from Nike. Of the ten teams, three are from Florida, with the University of Florida in the center in blue. Florida will be wearing the […]
As an iPhone owner, I’m always interested in new apps (applications) for the iPhone. One of the recent — and controversial — apps was “Amp Up Before You Score,” released and then withdrawn by PepsiCo Inc. The app was to promote PepsiCo’s Amp Energy drink. The app provided 24 types of women — such as […]
I’m attending the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention in Washington, D.C., with 6,300 high school journalism and teachers. The standard sessions on yearbook theme and newspaper design contests are on the program, but the winds of change are in the air. At the scholastic press association directors roundtable, our major topic was organizational […]
My last post about discipline problems in the college classroom received a response from Joan Azarva, a college learning specialist who provides counseling student students with LD or ADD — http://www.conquercollegewithld.com/ Let me share her comments (in green) and then my thoughts: In my humble opinion, the students with LD are usually very meek and […]
Students who talk with classmates during class. Students who fall asleep in class. Students who pack up several minutes before class is over. Students who argue about how you graded an assignment. Students who text message during class or are on their laptops checking their Facebook pages. All of these discipline problems are concerns that […]
This is a big deadline week in Writing for Mass Communication. This is the deadline for the students’ reporting assignment on an environmental, health or science story. Students are scrambling to get those last remaining interviews and get their stories written. Another part of the assignment is for them to take a photo that will […]
Julie Dodd 