| Moving Beyond Mere Talk |
| Published: December 1, 2008, 1:38 am |
| Tags: Change, Education Policy, Online Education, Teaching |
| Programs at Washington State University, I saw plenty of college students crash and burn in such classes because they didn’t have the organizational skills and internal motivation to keep plugging away at their assignments. Many of these students lost a lot of money in the process, as they had to retake these classes at an additional |
| Some Joshua Redman for Your Monday |
| Published: December 1, 2008, 1:00 am |
| Tags: Concerts, Music, Musicians, Band, Concert, Jazz, Joshua Redman, Live, Video, Youtube |
| the jazz station at Webster University. It was very similar to a Coltrane or any of the classic jazz sax players, but he wasn’t just covering jazz standards. He was creating new music in the standard tradition. The Marsalis family is another group of musicians that are doing something similar. I am a particular fan of Wynton Marsalis |
| Lady Vols On A Roll |
| Published: November 30, 2008, 9:12 pm |
| Tags: Sports, Basketball, Lady Vols, University Of Tennessee |
| Even though the season is young, the Lady Vols of the University of Tennessee are on a roll. Their latest victims came today with an 88-67 win over DePaul. The win came while fans got to watch three freshmen tie or beat their career best. When the season originally began, I, like many others, doubted that [...] |
| The sky is falling! |
| Published: November 30, 2008, 6:23 pm |
| Tags: Asteroid Ab |
| press release issued by the university Tuesday: “Many witnesses reported seeing a cluster of red fragments continuing downwards in the sky after the fireball exploded. These represent the rocks slowing down that will eventually fall to the ground as meteorites.” Supposedly, the asteroid hit the earth at 14 KM per second, which is |
| Reading Out Loud |
| Published: November 30, 2008, 5:40 pm |
| Tags: Ideas, Editing, Fiction, Librivox, Nonfiction, Reading, Reading Aloud, University |
| So … we talked about audibooks last time - and it seems that not only do most of us find them useful, but also that we all have some experience with reading books out loud. I find reading out loud to be the best way to actually ~get~ what I am reading. Anything that I have actually read out loud, like Omeros, for example, tends to stick |
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