Oct 22, 2018
We have had Border Collies on our sheep farm since 1993 when a student gifted me with his 9-month-old Border Collie, Doyle, who was not going to transition well to an apartment when he moved up to Houghton. When Doyle moved in we tried to be careful to keep him...
Oct 22, 2018
Recently my friend Lisa Blackford gave me a draft of talking points or thoughts leading to potential talking points that her students had constructed in their planning for how they will approach members of the Traverse City community about a shared class project. Some...
Oct 22, 2018
Okay, so I guess I should have thought about the fact that Anatomy and Physiology would involve, you know, anatomy–and physiology. It should have occurred to me that one does not learn how the body looks and functions just by reading books or listening to...
Oct 22, 2018
I thought for this first week, I’d share a bit of the talk I gave at the TYCA Midwest conference in Indianapolis earlier this month called “Would You Please Start Arguing? When Academic Argument, ‘Mere’ Opinion, and Comments Section Culture Collide”. In the talk I...
Oct 22, 2018
I have been doing a lot of research lately on dyscalculia. Wondering if my students have it and what I can do to help them. I was pretty amazed at what I found. I learned that it affects 7% of the population. I learned that some students that have dyscalculia are able...
