Only One?

There’s a student in one of my classes who got herself an unofficial final grade of 115.7% in one of the classes she took with me. The deal is that there’s a class blog, and students who post constantly during semester can do so at an unlimited amount, provided it’s quality stuff. They get one [...]

Using Technology in Classrooms

You know, I always find it interesting how people like to talk up the idea of using technologies in the classroom to help students “learn in new ways.”
The fact of the matter is, learning in new ways is exactly what is making classrooms look increasingly obsolete. At least, classrooms as we know them today. Often [...]

Hilarious Hermione Horror

One of my Media English students — I’m not sure which one, though I’ll find out on Thursday I suppose — uploaded made this hilarious trailer remix (link for LJers, the video is embedded below) as a final project in our class. (They’re doing media remixes, as a kind of break from all the studying [...]

Fairness, Competition, and Roll Call (Plus Festivals and Sports Days)

Only one of the people who was supposed to lead a discussion in my morning Listening & Speaking class was there when I arrived to start class. (And I was a minute late myself!) I asked, “Are we having discussions today? Who is leading today?” And nobody said a word, so I went ahead and [...]

Stuff Going On

Been busy like mad, and traveling for the next few days, but briefly:

I’m getting my students to release stuff (or let me release their stuff) online. The first in a series of projects is now up at YouTube: my Korean students considered popular stereotypes believed in Korea about foreign countries (like France, America, South and [...]

Dhuluma Proofs Done & On Tuckerization

Let’s see, today I:

graded most of a huge pile of exams (some with quite a surprising degree of insight, including a few analyses of the peculiarities of American social anxieties as encoded in the TV show Lost; others, rather disappointing)
critiqued a student article for the campus magazine (about the decline of open-air traditional markets in [...]

Could I Get a Class To Do This?

I wonder. Saw a link on Boing-Boing for the product of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project, a graphic novel titled Shake Girl which is online for free here. Read it in one sitting. True story. Very sad. Good stuff.
Make me wonder whether I could get my students to do something that good in a [...]

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