m2h blogs

Listening to books in the car is one of the best things I’ve done lately to make my less than desirable, or “frog,” commute more bearable. Most recently, I’ve been listening to Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy. I have to say, [...]

I came across the website for This I Believe today. It’s really an extensive website that offers essays by many different people who discuss one of their core beliefs. There is Spanish content, podcasts, and even audio recordings from the original 1950’s version of the text. Fabulous!

I’ve finished reading Al Gore’s text, The Assault on Reason. I feel as if I’ve been assaulted. If ever anyone wanted to believe that W’s actions were merely misguided, rather than politically motivated, dishonest, unreasonable, illogical, and sometimes criminal, I don’t think it would be possible for them to believe so after reading this [...]

I left the house for a couple of hours and went to Barnes & Noble to browse for a bit. I’m a big believer in affirmations (or I try to be ) and I picked up a great little book that is packed with positive affirmations and colorful graffics by Louise L. Hay. [...]

In the forward to Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces (edited by Kristine Blair and Pamela-Takayoshi), Patricia Sullivan writes, “I am particularly grateful that Feminist Cyberscapes …does not abandon the study of more bedrock technologies (say, e-mail) in favor of emerging technologies (say, synchronous video conferencing). Such a restraint in a society of technology [...]

WAC programs are concerned with how (and if) instructors integrate writing into their disciplinary courses. They offer seminars on adding writing to learn activities to course content (Bean). They talk about how writing functions (Britton). They talk about informal writing (Bean) such as one-minute writing and bio poems, microthemes, assessing writing, and [...]

Odell, Lee. “Context Specific Ways of Knowing and the Evaluation of Writing.” Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines. Anne Herrington and Charles Moran, Eds. New York: MLA, 1992. 86-98.
one-sentence summary: Odell argues that WAC faculty must help their colleagues understand students’ ways of knowing and that writing and content should not [...]

I just discovered a new web app that Ellis Library (the main library here at Mizzou) offers: New Book List, where users can browse by category new offerings at the library. Very nice.
Here are some of the titles that caught my eye:
Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror
Web-Based Learning [...]

via rebecca’s pocket: The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web: CSS and HTML typography design — this is great stuff here. Followed this site to the web designer who is doing the project, Richard Rutter at clagnut.com. Good content and blogroll here.
From there, I clicked on a random commenter [...]

Link: list of emotions.