m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

What am I afraid of? The other day, I posted a link to a list of emotions. I thought it might be interesting to write a post that corresponds to each emotion. 1. I am a little afraid of writing about what makes me afraid for fear of giving energy to negativity. I don’t want [...]

I did not want to misplace the URL to this imagination prompt, (originally via 43 Folders), as my students have really enjoyed it and I’ll probably sugggest it again another semester. As long as I was there, I thought I’d answer the question: What sets you apart from the crowd? This is easy. My curly [...]

The latest Teaching Carnival 3 at Scrivenings is out (actually Nov 15). I’m embarassed that I’m just now realizing that two of my posts were included. I didn’t think my posts were that hot, but it is totally cool to be included. I will definitely try to write more and better posts about teaching for [...]

In a post on Thursday, Steven D. Krause talks about new ideas of composition. I was reading Kathy Yancey’s CCCC 2003 keynote essay the other day (I think it was the 2003 keynote; it was published in the December 2004 issue of the CCCs) and I think she makes a pretty good argument about where [...]

I gave a talk on computers and writing to a group of soon-to-be teachers in the Education department (MUTE). If you’re interested, here is a link to the presentation. Based on the audience response, they loved the talk. Either that, or they were all lying through their teeth, which I doubt! 10/27/2005 Update: Keri asked [...]

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Warning…this is one of those catch-all entries that wanders all over the place…. Alex at Digital Digs has an idea, tipping the intellectual climate. It’s about motivating entry-level English students to write and I want to think about it in conjunction with a blogging across the curriculum program: Rather than trying to motivate the entire [...]

I am taking a Shakespeare class this semester (my first). We just finished Richard III. I’ve been trying to watch the videos as well as read the texts. For Richard III, Al Pacino directed and stared in a Docu/Drama called, “Looking for Richard.” The following quote is from that video. It was spoken by a [...]

Sally Ride spoke last night in Jesse Auditorium in conjunction with the Delta Gamma Lectureship Series. She said that we really need to beat back the stereotypes that keep girls from careers in science: young girls need career books and female role models. Why should we care? Ride said that we need to support a [...]

cross-posted to 8040. I found it very interesting how Aristotle defines the components of wealth. There is both a productive aspect, as well as an enjoyable component to wealth. The productive part of wealth is “what produces income;” whereas, the enjoyable part of wealth is “that from which there is no gain worth mentioning beyond [...]