March 2004 - Posts
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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