March 2004 - Posts

Searching for Knowledge Can be Fun
31 March 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 1 Comments   
Rob Kaulfauss (Middlesex Community College) recommends the following web sites as excellent starting places for students looking for information, explanations, or doing web research on general topics (rather than the usual Google search). He reports that Read More...
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Quote of the Week 3
30 March 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 526 Comments   
Our quote this week is offered by Jennifer Hawrylciw from Northern Essex Community College: This quote is from Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year. I highly recommend this fast and hilarious read So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results Read More...
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Change and Information Overload
29 March 04 06:30 AM | margulisd | 525 Comments   
Change and Information Overload: negative effects The most important characteristic of our present society may well be the incredible speed with which it changes. Whether things evolve in a positive or in a negative way, change itself constitutes a problem. Read More...
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Buried Cities and Lost Tribes
26 March 04 06:30 AM | margulisd | 536 Comments   
Rick Effland an Anthropology teacher at Mesa Community College teaches a course with the intriguing title "Buried Cities and Lost Tribes." He also has created the Rick Effland Blog which serves as a resource for students and interested readers. Read More...
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Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
25 March 04 10:08 AM | margulisd | 538 Comments   
Two cultures clash a bit when one realizes that the majority of educators (and adults) are probably most comfortable communicating online using asynchronous methods (e-mail and threaded discussions), while most of our students and the majority of young Read More...
Multiple Choices
25 March 04 07:00 AM | margulisd | 548 Comments   
Our AAHE WebCenter integrates multiple communities within one interface. In general we refer to the COPPER community when we describe the WebCenter's features. However, those same features are available for two additional communities (actually more in Read More...
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Online Resources for Faculty
24 March 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 527 Comments   
The following site was recommended by Judith Kamber in a recent comment under the Open Forum. It contains such a rich variety of online resources for teaching and learning that I thought it should be featured as our Wednesday site of the week. You're Read More...
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Quote of the Week 2
23 March 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 528 Comments   
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker Read More...
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Mummies the Word
17 March 04 08:37 PM | margulisd | 540 Comments   
The National Geographic web site is a good example of how multiple online resources can be combined to create an experience that is both educational and entertaining. For example, the feature on the Inca "Mummy Bundles of Puruchuco" from the March 17 Read More...
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Quote of the Week
16 March 04 05:43 PM | margulisd | 2 Comments   
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. --Tao Te Ching Read More...
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PEDABLOGUE: A Professor's Blog
12 March 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 537 Comments   
From time to time we will feature a blog maintained by a college faculty member to provide a sense of how this format is used by scholars and other academics. This weeks featured site is Pedablogue described by its author as "A personal inquiry into the Read More...
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Where did that email go?
11 March 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 16 Comments   
If you have ever have a need to locate past email messages sent to you by our COPPER listserv, or you want to view messages that were sent prior to the time some members joined the cluster, help is available. Just login to our WebCenter , click on the Read More...
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Open Knowledge
10 March 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 531 Comments   
What if there was one location that everyone who wished to share their expertise could visit, leave their knowledge, view and freely use what others had written, and know that someone with additional knowledge might add to what they had created? Sounds Read More...
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Featured Quotes
09 March 04 06:30 AM | margulisd | 536 Comments   
"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." -Lord Thomas Dewar Contributed by George Medelinskas: "The ignorant can not be made wise through experience." -- A. Greene Read More...
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No Cheating Allowed?
08 March 04 06:30 AM | margulisd | 527 Comments   
I was recently doing a Google search on a psychology topic and came across the following site - Cheathouse.com . I knew these sites existed, but this was an unpleasant reminder of how easy it is for students to acquire and use work that is not their own. Read More...
Scholars Who Blog
05 March 04 06:30 AM | margulisd | 532 Comments   
Scholars Who Blog by David Glenn is an interesting artlcle on one application of weblog technology from the June 6, 2003 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Links to several popular blogs maintained by professors are provided, including one Read More...
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WebCenter COPPER Resources
04 March 04 07:00 AM | margulisd | 536 Comments   
Upon logging into the WebCenter and clicking on the COPPER tab you will see the "Resources" button as one of your options on the left of the screen. The Resources area is the location for our shared documents. You can upload and download files of interest Read More...
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The Diversity Web
03 March 04 07:00 AM | margulisd | 521 Comments   
Thanks to Donna Duffy for forwarding this week's featured website: http://www.diversityweb.org/ The Diversity web is a resource of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. It provides examples of curricular issues, research topics, and current Read More...
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It's time to register!
02 March 04 06:52 PM | margulisd | 541 Comments   
The registration for the Summer Institute on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Middlesex Community College is open..It will be held on June 24-26, 2004. The conference is shaping up to be an interesting conference with opportunities for varied Read More...
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Quotes of the Week 2
02 March 04 07:00 AM | margulisd | 521 Comments   
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --Martin Luther King Jr. "We must become the change we want to see." --Mahatma Gandhi Read More...
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In Praise of Failure
01 March 04 07:00 AM | margulisd | 5 Comments   
A number of years ago at a small community college in North Carolina, a college president urged his faculty to be willing to risk failure. He believed that only by experimenting with new teaching strategies could his faculty meet the demands of a new Read More...
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