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How Much is That Worth?
This is a phrase that makes chills go down my spine. Typically it means to an instructor that if you don't assign points to an assignment, then the student will not see value in it. Many pieces of research have shown that if you are motivated externally (i.e. money or...
Evaluating Nursing Student Clinical Skills
Each semester the fundamental nursing instructors have to evaluate 45 nursing students on 24 different skills. Each skill takes about 10 minutes to evaluate. This equates to 10,800 minutes or 180 hours of class time to complete. The students become frustrated because...
Bibliophobia? Library Phobia?
“She smells vaguely of Band-Aids and Vick's Vapor Rub. I have several overdue DVDs, one of which is scratched.” Yahoo Answers individual explaining a fear of Librarians. We see it all the time in the Osterlin Library. The student that reluctantly walks past the...
Lions, Tigers, and Bears, OH MY!
I am not a wizzard. And I do not live in the land of Oz. Traverse City certainly is a wonderful place to live, but it ain’t no Oz. Apologies to those whose “English gene” is now screeming. This is a blog, not a discertation. I am a teacher. And I find myself...