They want us to “flip” our classrooms. This would mean writing lectures, practicing them, dressing for them, and videotaping them to put online. 1. I do not lecture and to the extent that I do, it works in person. If lectures are bad to begin with, I do not see why I should start giving … More Flippant
Remember, if I publish one to five paragraphs like this locally, everyone will know to which meetings I refer and of whom I speak. Current paragraph one: The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates … More Watch my tone
Since my colleague is boasting in class about knowing Arturo Pérez-Reverte I will dramatize here my encounter with Camilo José Cela. This happened a long time ago and that Emeritus Professor did not realize it was happening as he did not know I could understand as much Spanish as I could … or that, given … More Camilo José Cela
My survey of Spanish literature, where Clarissa and Jonathan both gave Skype lectures, is composed of sweet people but they are lost. I have been attempting to explain what the second Spanish Republic was for ten weeks and the students still do not understand. What the Franco dictatorship was. What the relation of the current … More In which my Spanish literature class is one of the worst I have ever had
I wrote: Later when I have time, I will try to consider methods of using my plan, or even a Boicean style plan, to address problems that do not have to do with the low level problems he addresses, which appear to be not liking to write, not having any experience writing, not being organized, … More When I say “reeducation,” one of the elements to which I refer is Boice
xdanne: Boice encourages not word count but “# of typed page equivalents” which are then charted in relation to “”# of hrs. spent writing”. You thus get a neat little productivity graph which becomes a writing goal in and of itself. I too dislike the dog-training aspect of behavioral approaches. I don’t want to tell … More An anti-Boicean dialogue with xdanne
…due to lack of space, but it was fun: In a recent meeting on teaching, experts opined to my colleagues and me on the evils of lecture courses, which they termed “one-way delivery.” Most of us never taught that way and have never been taught that way; those Power Pointing for us, however, and only … More Cut from my opinion piece
This morning I have written 213 words, a very good draft. There are only four sentences and revision will mean turning these into six. I finished at 11:19 and I do not know what time I started. I had gotten up somewhere between seven and eight, had coffee and later breakfast, dealt with e-mail, read four … More Mo té écrit…
Axé.
Today, Tuesday, I polished 560 words and wrote 59. This took three hours. According to Trollope, it should have taken 33 minutes: 30 for revision and 3 for writing 59 words. According to Thomas, the 59 words should have taken 27 minutes. If I were to consider all the time allotted me by both Thomas … More Word count
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