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Entries from July 2008

My revised autobiography

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Wow! To be honest, I didn’t really see the value in re-doing my autobiography. Didn’t I just do this last year?? How much could I really have changed in 12 short months? Aren’t I fundamentally the same person? I did just think that this was simply another writing assignment that TLITE needs us to do [...]

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My two page reflection of TLITE’s year 1 process

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

(Subtitle: A rather obvious, but accurate, description of this assignment.)
Well, as I look back over the past year, I remember coming into the summer session as a totally new, first year TLITEr. I was a bit in awe of the second year TLITErs, seeing them as Info Tech pros, and felt excited, but somewhat daunted. [...]

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Position paper: online learning

July 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Nb: See also my previous blog entry, Review of an Ed Tech article, The Role of Tech in Quality Education(1). That article was a research paper about online learning. It was not intended to be persuasive one way or the other, but in my review of it, I came down on the side of caution, [...]

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How to encourage and motivate academically-challenged students?

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

My wide topic is, “How to motivate and encourage academically-challenged students?”
It’s heart-breaking for all teachers to see students slipping through the proverbial cracks in our classroom floors, especially when, for one, it’s our job to help them and, for two, you know you COULD help them if only you didn’t have so much else on [...]

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