Nov 18, 2015
When Katherine turned in her first assignment in ENG 97/107, I was shocked. The assignment was to write a page of free writing explaining something they were good at and how they got good at it. Most students wrote about a page–messy and full of errors, maybe,...
Nov 17, 2015
This morning I was eating my snack at a table in the Writing and Reading Center when I overheard a conversation between two students. One student asked the other if she was at the WRC for her psychology paper or her sociology paper. When the other student responded...
Nov 17, 2015
Lofty ideas and ideals need to have a landing place. Words and ideas need to become flesh if they are to have any value at all. I am an educator. But I am also an innovator. I guess that makes me an educational innovator? Strangely, that label...
Nov 16, 2015
Students with enthusiasm – awesome! Spring CIT 275 students developed a multi-player top-down shooter game and presented their project twice last April, to faculty and staff at the Friday Forum and to community business leaders at the CIT Advisory Committee....
Nov 16, 2015
In calculus III we spend the majority of our time studying functions in 3-dimensional space. I told the students early on that making a real 3-D model would, at times, be the only way they would really be able to “see” it. Most of the semester our 3-D grapher has been...
