Productive Procrastination Tips from My To-Do List

Productive Procrastination Tips from My To-Do List

I get stressed, sometimes, by all of the grading and emailing that’s required of me in the middle of the semester, and by the unending to-do list I keep running in my brain. For work, I have a three column to-do list that, when not woefully neglected, works really...
Too Scary!

Too Scary!

[Image: “Bull in a China Shop” by Gwen’s River City Images, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0]   In one of my daughter’s favorite TV programs is an episode she used to love: A bull in a china shop. Mr. Bull breaks his teapot and takes to to be fixed at Ms....
From the OER Trenches: A post that’s both tardy and lengthy

From the OER Trenches: A post that’s both tardy and lengthy

[Image: “Frankenstein” by Khánh Hmoong CC BY-NC 2.0] This semester is my third semester using OER (Open Education Resources) here at NMC to teach ENG 111, and I have also jumped in with OER for my ENG 112 course this fall. On ENG 111: I spent my first...

The Students I’m Thankful For

I’m thankful for the students who are on-time and have all their work done, every time, because I can depend on them to help move a discussion along. I’m thankful for the students who are late and don’t have their work done, because at least they are making the effort...