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    February 2006



    My 4Cs Schedule

    Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:51 A GMT-07
    Last week was so frustrating, so exhausting, so just plain awful, that I needed a big distraction from the here and now (so anti-Zen, I know), so I spent a few hours perusing the schedule for 4Cs and came up with my list of must-attends: Foste
    Category: comp academia

    grading vs. responding

    Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:38 A GMT-07
    I need more time in my days to fully absorb all the wonderful stuff on the teaching carnivals. I’m working backwards, starting with carnival #5. The best thing so far about carnival #5 is that I’m getting some insight into teaching outsid
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    workshopping

    Monday, 20 February 2006 8:05 P GMT-07
    I’m a big fan of workshopping and I try to incorporate it into every class I teach in some manner. I like workshopping partially because it makes the writing of class members public, at least within the class. When students can see what their c
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    rethinking bundles

    Wednesday, 15 February 2006 10:46 A GMT-07
    My post yesterday about overlapping categories in my del.icio.us tags got me thinking. I’ve already deleted the “teaching ideas” category and retagged everything in that bundle “teaching.” I think I originally created a
    Category: personal academia

    social bookmarking angst

    Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:39 A GMT-07
    I finally have all my Explorer and Netscape bookmarks moved to del.icio.us. I first heard about del.icio.us a while ago, but didn’t quite understand the concept and forgot about it. Then Clancy blogged about it and Toni mentioned it in class, a
    Category: comp personal academia
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    oh the humanity

    Tuesday, 7 February 2006 2:01 P GMT-07
    Anyone who enjoyed Stick Figure Death Theatre will appreciate this behind-the-scenes peak at an angry blogger. (Thanks, T, for pointing it out to me.)
    Category: personal

    not checking email

    Monday, 6 February 2006 9:49 A GMT-07
    One of my new year's resolutions is to overcome my email addiction, and the best way I've found to do that is to follow the advice of my second-ranking organizing hero, Julie Morgenstern, and NOT check email (or voice mail) during the first hour of t
    Category: comp Ph.Duh personal
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    HUM/ENG Carnival: The Scenic Route

    Saturday, 4 February 2006 5:40 P GMT-07
    Many people in this class have taken the scenic route to some extent. Sometimes this entails taking a break between high school and college, sometimes it entails changing plans for college at the last minute, and sometimes it simply means being open
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    Betty Friedan an entertainer????

    Saturday, 4 February 2006 3:47 P GMT-07
    It strikes me as absolutely bizarre that MSNBC’s story on Betty Friedan’s death would be in the Entertainment section. The woman set off a feminist revolution. In fact, the MSCBC story says, “Friedan’s assertion in her 1963 be
    Category: politics
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    nice surprise

    Thursday, 2 February 2006 1:10 P GMT-07
    I never thought it would happen, but in reading this morning's headlines, I had to admit that Justice Alito brought a smile to my face.
    Category: politics

    a couple completely unrelated thought-provoking quotes

    Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:59 P GMT-07
    the last stanza of Stephen Shu-ning Liu's poem, "My Father's Martial Art": But don't retreat into night, my father. Come down from the cliffs. Come with a single Black Dragon Sweep and hush this oncoming traffic with your hah, hah, hah
    Category: comp books, film, etc.