Collaboration… Friday Flick: To the Moon Before Dinner 11 Mar 201111 Mar 2011 I loved the premiere of this animated short by David Salin.
Change the World… The Poetry of Music 7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 I'm just home from a university choir concert, aptly named "Waxing Poetic." Several well-trained choirs from Arizona State University prepared sacred and humorous works, performed in a sacred space, and…
Change the World… You Can’t Want It More than They Do 2 Mar 2011 A dear friend often reminds me: "You can't want it more than they do!" How often have I campaigned for someone's results so relentlessly, I've forgotten whose fight it was.…
Change the World… Stories from College Drop-In Steve Jobs 1 Mar 201110 Mar 2011 “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have…
Brain… My Students’ Best Advice 28 Feb 2011 My students are in finals week. I asked for advice to pass along to future students, and they all said, DON'T FALL BEHIND! They sound even more adamant than I…
Blogging… Letting Your Goal Carry You 14 Feb 201113 Feb 2011 There is such joy in keeping a personal commitment. I keep blogging, logging in these little laps around the language. I keep breathing. At the end of our 21 Day…
Academic Writing… Why Do I Have to Take this Class Anyway? 10 Feb 201112 Feb 2011 I haven't studied math since high school. I excelled in it. I took all four years of accelerated classes, keeping college majoring options open. Then I tested out of college…
Baby Boomers… How to Stop Time 9 Feb 20119 Feb 2011 A student who's juggling unemployment stress and family crises (while still getting his schoolwork done) asked, "Can you just tell me how to stop time?" The same day, my son…
Academic Writing… New Messages on Texting 7 Feb 20118 Feb 2011 Could texting be good for literacy? Some early and brief studies are suggesting that it might not hurt as much as you fear. Students who spell well in general can…
Brain… Education Knows No Boundaries 31 Jan 201130 Jan 2011 For the first five years of my formal education, Louisiana was the setting. Halfway through second grade, I was assigned to a new school, courtesy of the United States Supreme…
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