16 January 2008
14 January 2008
11 January 2008
Learning to Teach Tech-Comm: Eleven Things You Could Start Doing Today for the Benefit of Your Students' Writing
Learning to Teach Tech-Comm: Eleven Things You Could Start Doing Today for the Benefit of Your Students' Writing: "Eleven Things You Could Start Doing Today for the Benefit of Your Students' Writing' to the WPA listserv. I wanted to comment on it, but this is the first time I've had the chance because of the conference, as well as just keeping up in general. I'm not going to reproduce the e-mail comments under each item, but instead reproduce the items with my own thoughts."
05 January 2008
04 January 2008
01 January 2008
Wordsmiths, avoid these words.. | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Wordsmiths, avoid these words.. | Oddly Enough | Reuters: "Such phrases as 'post 9/11' and 'surge' have also outlived their usefulness, they said. Surge emerged in reference to adding U.S. troops in Iraq but has come to explain the expansion of anything. Continued..."
27 December 2007
Student wins lottery, leaves school | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Student wins lottery, leaves school | Oddly Enough | Reuters: "The Communist Party abolished lotteries in China after taking power in 1949, denouncing them as a practice of decadent capitalists. But the country launched state-run lotteries in 1987 amid market-oriented reforms."
[X] : Students: Grade My Picture
[X] : Students: Grade My Picture: "A new photo feature on a student-rated Web site for evaluating professors now allows its users to upload pictures of listed teachers to accompany their profiles.
Taken in the classroom unknowingly via camera cell phones, or uploaded by the teacher�s themselves, users of Ratemyprofessor.com can now put a face with a name, along with their 'hot' or 'not' rating."
