Archive for March, 2006
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
F is For Free/For Sale
Spring is coming, and my urge to purge is getting stronger. Each day I pull out some piece of clothing from my closet and cringe at how it fits, and how it makes me look. I remember this feeling, but it is different this time. In past Springs, this process almost [...]
No Comments » - Posted in more knitting by amy
Friday, March 10th, 2006
A different kind of test
Assessment in Higher Education …
spotted over at Edwired
“Scholars need to–must, in fact–develop assessment tools that can demonstrate that our students have really learned something worth knowing. We have to come to clearer agreements on what that learning would look like and then show how, without multiple choice tests, we have assessed that learning over a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Social Pedagogy by amy
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Learning Activities
Ah, learning exercises. Designing them may be the most creative part of the curriculum process so far. In thinking about my online course design, I’ve had to think outside my traditional box. My tendency is to think in terms of reading, writing and research but those aren’t learning activities; they are homework assignments [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Curriculum Design by amy
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Becoming David Horowitz?
Growing up in a politically divided household, I learned early about partisan posturing and how to engage in different styles of debate. In a predominantly liberal high school, I found the easiest way to rebel was to become a Reagan Youth. In college, a cute boy introduced me to the errors of my [...]
