November 2004 - Posts

What's Been Published?
29 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 0 Comments   
Looking for a resource or reference? The "What's Been Published Database" lists over 2 million published items (primarily books) in 121 sub-databases, many of which reflect academic disciplines. Click on the following link to explore this online Read More...
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Quotes of the Week 4
24 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 0 Comments   
On Education and Teaching: "We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved." --Stephen Brookfield "Education Read More...
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Tree Question Project
22 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 528 Comments   
The following innovative project was submitted by Tom Laughlin, MCC English faculty member: An experimental education initiative called the “Tree Question Project” started about a month ago on the Bedford campus of Middlesex Community College (MCC). This Read More...
"Why I Blog" - One Student's Voice
19 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 520 Comments   
While our COPPER Blog is intended to function as a collaborative tool, blogs have been used in a variety of ways, in particular as individual online journals. It's in this capacity that they are often used by instructors in a variety of classes. Many Read More...
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"Student Voices" at North Seattle Community College
18 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 529 Comments   
Jack Bautsch and Jim Harnish of North Seattle Community College (a member school of the "Student Voices" cluster) sent along examples of some of the work they are doing at NSCC to support student involvement in SoTL related activities and the Read More...
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Sustaining the Student Voice in SoTL
17 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 0 Comments   
The CASTL "Student Voices" Cluster describes their purpose as follows: "The cluster seeks to develop a learning system that is informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning and that embeds the student voice throughout all institutional Read More...
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KartOO - Visual Display Search Tool
15 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 0 Comments   
KartOO is a metasearch engine that displays your results as a concept map. Your search topic generates concepts which branch to related websites. Clicking on a concept focuses the search even further. Finally there are related topics on the side of the Read More...
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Student Voices
12 November 04 12:12 PM | margulisd | 515 Comments   
We will adding a new category of posts to our Blog under the heading Student Voices . It is meant to reflect the student perspective on a range of related teaching-learning issues as well as provide examples of the ways in which these perspectives contribute Read More...
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The University in Transformation
10 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 545 Comments   
Thanks to Donna Duffy for forwarding the attached message from "Tomorrow's Professor" mail list. It features a review of "The University in Transformation: Global Perspectives on the Futures of the University," edited by Sohail Inayatullah Read More...
The Teacher as Tap Dancer
08 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 582 Comments   
The following passage is from the Introduction to "Expanding Your Teaching Potential" by Susan Campbell. It speaks to our discussion of "doing too much." The Teacher as Tap Dancer The teaching profession is in an identity crisis. Teachers Read More...
Enhancing Student Interaction with Online Discussion Boards
04 November 04 11:24 AM | margulisd | 522 Comments   
Mónica Torregrosa of HCC has forwarded the following request for ideas regarding the use of online discussion boards to support student interaction: I have been developing a website for my Intermediate Spanish course using WebCt. Besides posting documents Read More...
On Ambiguity & Not Knowing
03 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 516 Comments   
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." Read More...
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Diversity: Underrepresented Students
01 November 04 06:00 AM | margulisd | 526 Comments   
Jack Mino of Holyoke Community College poses a problem and raises several questions related to the COPPER cluster domain (theme) of "diversity" in the following post: Underrepresented Student Success Access to post-secondary education is fundamental to Read More...