4 x 4 x 16 Challenge Articles
Gratitude
Last year, when my daughter was a freshman in college and having a really hard time, she would complain to me about everything. She was unable to see anything good about her college, her new city, her life far from home. So I pulled out a strategy I used to use when...
Why can’t I sleep?
Am I worrying to much about things that I cannot change? Am I worrying out about the one time I said that one thing wrong that one day? Am I worrying about my student that has never missed a class and now has been gone all week? Am I worrying about the student that...
“Now is the winter of our discontent” Made Glorious by Compromise
Ironically enough, the last blog post for this challenge has arrived at the same time that everyone is busy in every part of their lives: school, work, all of the grading, frantically getting ready for winter, holiday planning, doctor’s visits, “fall” cleaning, did I...
Go to Class or Study? 9x9x25 Post #7
So, what am I going to reflect on this week? Good Question.
Last week, all was fairly quiet in my teaching world.
One class spent the week doing review for their test next week.
The other class was quiet, but …
I Memorize Names the First Day. Hate Me.
You’re probably curious about WHY I would bother to do such a crazy, stressful, unnecessary thing, but I’ll going to start with the HOW instead. I’m pretty good at faces, but terrible at names. So to compensate, I use all the usual tricks everyone already knows, like...
A Tribute to Little Things
Our first teachers are our families, and after my parents, nobody taught me more than my grandpa, Richard Post, who passed away two weekends ago. My grandfather taught me a lot of Big Things, of course. But it was the little things I learned from him that I’ve found...
Would You Please Start Arguing Part 4 of 4
I ended last week on one way that I teach constructive disagreement--through investigating bias and trying a new argument style. Constructive disagreement is what I want from my students--at the college level, I want them to go beyond Graham’s Hierarchy of...
Planting Seeds: Empowering Open Advocacy
It is empowering to engage with educators and librarians IRL At #OEOSummit2018 #OEOSUMMIT18 – Thank you for anohter great day @eCampusOntario
— Laura Killam (@NurseKillam) November 12, 2018
Today, in the final session at the OEO Summit the eCampusOntario Fellows …