m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Give students a handout with just key terms on it. Leave space for students to write their own definitions in their own language. If the instructor also puts the terms in the order they want to explain and discuss, then it also serves as the session’s lesson plan.
Don’t you just love [...]

I’m really interested in the way that Scott DeWitt and Cindy Selfe are teaching DMAC. Some of the pedagogical things they said yesterday included the following.
In the computer classroom:

“Look up here for a minute…”
“Back away from the computer…”
“Focus on the screen for right now…”
“I have a whistle and I’m not afraid to use it [...]

Self,
When you’re really stressed out by everything you have going on this month, please realize that you’re not too good at interpreting others’ statements or actions. Please don’t judge others, or yourself, too harshly.
Remember to breathe and not over-react and go into freakout mode. If you have to freak out occasionally, it’s best [...]

Tomorrow on Oprah, guests Bill and Melinda Gates will discuss the education crisis in America (read: Oprah: Special Report: Schools in Crisis). Might be blogable…

Will R. writes, It’s all about engagement:
There is the palpable energy of a community of learners who are connecting around questions and answers to better understand their own practice and then share back that understanding with the community to further the conversation.
Absolutely.
I think ‘connecting around questions and answers’ is more important for digital [...]

Clarence Fisher of Remote Access and a 7/8 grade teacher at Joseph H. Kerr School in Snow Lake, Manitoba writes about the girls in his class being first adopters:
The kids who are most excited about technology, who are the ones downloading Skype after we talk about it in class and are putting in the most [...]

Drew, one of the students in my professional writing class, did a great presentation on coming up with ideas for what to blog about. Wish I’d written it!!

I found this page of 101 suggestions for college teachers to do in the first three weeks of class and thought some of you might enjoy it.
100 Things to Do in the First Three Weeks of Class.
Enjoy~

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 [...]

I had wanted to post my course proposal before I sent it; however due to my parents’ computer being infected with a virsus (and their computer being the only one with Internet access) , that was not to be. Still, if you have comments or suggestions, please feel free to comment as this is [...]