Mike is busy this weekend working on a custom furniture order. He is outside working his fanny off. Well, he is figuratively working his fanny off - as he really has a fairly limited fanny. I wonder it that was a pun - figuratively working one's fanny off - it seems like a pun. I [...]
Tag: grading
Grading B-I-N-G-O
It is that time of year again - grading time. I always enter this period with optimism, but about halfway in my optimism starts to degrade and I begin thinking of quicker, less painful ways to grade. My favorite creative idea for grading when I hit this point in the grading crunch is to throw [...]
The most important evaluation…
It is end-of-the-semester grading time again. This is a time of mixed emotions - sadness because another semester is at an end, elation because another semester is at an end... sadness because you have to give a grade that is less than desirable to a student you like an awful lot, elation because a student [...]
I grade, therefore I am.
I am in the throes of end-of-the-semester grading. Oh joy. I am not a huge fan of grading, but I am an educator at a higher education institution and with that identity comes grading. I wish I could just give all my students a simple pass or fail based on their commitment and effort, but [...]
Product endorsement
I remember when Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz was on the Wheaties box with all his gold medals...he was the consummate champion and he was on the Wheaties box with his beautiful face and body - yeah, with all his medals as well (as if that was the focal point). Of course, Spitz being on Wheaties [...]
Faculty dementia…
Prepare yourself - I am going to date myself as a card-carrying person in the new forty and a California transplant in one fell swoop. Today I am going to keep it really simple under the premise that a picture is worth a thousand words...well, more concisely, it is a video today that I provide [...]
The Twelve Days of Christmas for College Faculty
Well, it's that time of year again - the end of the Fall semester when final grades are but a hop, skip and a jump away. Students are trying to hurriedly complete whatever requirements they have for classes and negotiating with faculty over any missteps they have made over the semester (and yes, "negotiating" is [...]
THE NEW FORTY 