m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

cross-posted to 8040.
In On Rhetoric, Aristotle defines happiness as “success (eupraxia) combined with virtue or as self-sufficiency (autarkeia) in life or as the pleasantest life accompanied with security or as abundance of possessions and live bodies” (57).
Just above this definition, but not emphasized by footnote or other means, Artistole says that “one should *d0* things [...]

GHW hosts Teaching Carnival #1. This is really cool. Plus, find more posts, backstage.
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I’ve learned a few things over the past two weeks about myself as a student and as a teacher. I thought I’d share:
1. If I ask students to help each other with technical issues, it works better to ask them to work with someone sitting next to them than to ask them to [...]

cross posted to: MWPN
I teach both first-year writing and professional writing and they are both held in a computer classroom. In each of my classes on Tuesday, I used a variation of the activity below, although the activity as it is described below most closely matches what we did in the professional writing course. [...]

Teaching is so cool and I think it will only get better. I wasn’t really nervous about talking in front of people, but I was a little nervous about whether I explained things well enough. I hope they’ll ask me questions when they’re not sure of something.
They looked interested and responded to the [...]

English 1000 – Exposition and Argumentation, or on the web as:
1000 Arguments
English 2030 – Professional Writing, also on the web at:
2030 Writing
More to follow!
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Ok, so I keep fiddling with the readings on units 2-4 for my English 1000 class. I’ve changed out readings and moved them around and I’m still not sure. Specifically, in Unit 2, I would rather have something on questionable public cell phone use than the iPod article; however, the iPod article does [...]

Dana Kinnison accepted a two-year position as the Interim Director of Composition. She started off the meeting Friday afternoon for instructors of first-year writing by announcing that the Composition Office is in the process of moving to Tate 101, which is across from the EGSA Office.
I’ll be happy to see how the new office [...]

via sachac:
the easiest way to publish del.icio.us links on your blog. Way cool. It would be good to do this on a course blog where you’re also using del.icio.us. Then everyone could see at a glance what others are reading.
advice for freshman (freshwoman? freshpersons? first-year college students?) I think I [...]

See Bud the Teacher’s great article on writing in the grocery store. I love it!
I got so frusrated at the grocery store this afternoon. There were must too many people trying to get up and down the narrow aisles. I should take a lesson from Donna and do most of my shopping [...]