The Professor’s Notes

Over at his blog, my brother discusses the trend of schools not looking at the SAT scores when making admissions decisions (with his SHC at the cutting edge of that movement). It’s an interesting decision, and one that I find worthy of pursuit, but I also believe it is fraught with challenges. As [...]

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As I mentioned previously, I gave a presentation at the 2008 TLT Symposium, discussing Social Networking with “non-traditional students.”  In that presentation, I talked a bit about what exactly is a non-traditional student, and what it means to have “social networking” for them.  I tried to have it be an open discussion.
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I attended (and presented at) my second Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State.  I had the privilege to meet (and add to my twitter stream) many new people, some of whom pointed out they were the “cool kids” (and I won’t deny it! A real hoot!)
A blog entry about my presentation was [...]

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Wow. With only 9 hours before the school day started, the teacher union and the school board have reached an agreement, and “averted the strike.”
I don’t know about you, but I think this was a bit inconsiderate. It’s one thing to put everyone out and call a (trivial, no more than 3 [...]

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Yesterday I wrote an assessment of who I thought would be the winners and losers.  At the time, I believed that the teachers would be the big winners.  I have reconsidered.
If this were a real  strike, then they would emerge the winner. But with a 3 day strike cap, there are only losers.
I say “if [...]

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I received an email from a support group for a CVHS sports team.  In that email, the coach of the team wrote
As you all probably know, the Cumberland Valley Education Association was forced to initiate a teacher strike.  It is with great disappointment that I have to announce that I can not work with our [...]

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Let’s be fair here. Teachers deserve more pay. Okay. Here in the Cumberland Valley School District, The school board made several reasonable (and some would say, beyond reasonable) offers. Higher than COLA pay raises. Lower than average health care costs with better than average benefits. Making the pay raises [...]

 

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I recently received an email, containing an article entitled Less Money, More Pain — The Bonfire of Capital By Mike Whitney. The comment sent with the article was “This tells me that 2008 will be a very bad year for everyone.”  Wow.  Must be a compelling article, well researched, and written by [...]

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Over at the blog, Confessions of a Community College Dean, a commenter wrote that
Academics of all people should remember that the plural of anecdote is not data.
I find this to be a humorous, and in some way, interesting quote. I also find myself “engaging” with the quote in ways [...]

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I have been viewing the independent documentary, Jesus Camp, on YouTube, and reading the comments on there as well. In addition, I watched a discussion with the directors of that film. All in all, I think it is a very well done documentary.
In reading through the comments, one thing has struck me. [...]

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