November 2004 - Posts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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."
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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
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