Bobbi Stedman, a Business and Leadership major, recently completed her Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio, earning 35 credits for knowledge that she gained through her professional and personal experiences. She wrote for the following courses: Team Building: Managing Work Groups Great Meetings! Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion Leadership Communication Managing Transitions Conflict Management Negotiation Legal [...]
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Time Management, Planning, And Proofreading Result In 35 credits!
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, Time Management, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA, time, Writing on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Polly
Posted in Writing, tagged Writing on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the process of writing a chapter for an upcoming New Directions for Teaching and Learning issue. My chapter is titled Boundaries and Student Self-Disclosure in Authentic, Integrated Learning Activities and Assignments. Phew – that’s a long title, and not very “sexy,” as one rhetoric professor used to advise: Folks, whatever you do, create [...]
Think Again
Posted in Critical Thinking, Education, Learning, Liberal Arts, reading, Reflection, Writing, tagged criticalthinking, dialogue, education, Learning, liberalarts, reading, reflection, Writing on March 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! Apparently there’s now an app for critical thinking! Read all about it here: Critical Thinking: There’s An App For That Ditch your Liberal Arts education – who needs it? And hey – you no longer need to engage in dialogue or reflection with others — what a waste of your time! And [...]
The Humpty Dumpty Method
Posted in Writing, tagged Writing on March 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Harriet Schwartz over at The Encouragement Lounge and I have been co-authoring a book chapter, and our recent versions of the chapter have involved less actual writing and more of what I am fondly referring to as the “humpty-dumpty” method.
The Rubric’s Trail
Posted in Assessment, Learning, Writing, tagged Assessment, Learning, Writing on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Several years ago, when I was the Director of the Learning Resource Program at the School of Extended Education at St. Mary’s College of California, I developed a college-level writing rubric. I am certain that I used some other rubrics in my massive collection to inform my composition of this one, so it wasn’t entirely [...]
Back. Forward. Inward. Outward.
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, Reflection, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA, reflection, Writing on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Homework Assignment for PLA Students (Or Any Other Individuals Seeking To Learn From Their Mistakes Experiences) Read the 16 Outcomes of Reflection. It’s a GREAT framework for reflecting! Then: Think Back – about your topic / your experience / your learning. Think Forward – about your topic / your experience / your learning. Think Inward [...]
When It’s (It Is) Appropriate To Use An Apostrophe
Posted in Writing, tagged punctuation, Writing on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s (here is) a good review of when to use an apostrophe in a funny video. (I *heart* YouTube!) An English teacher / mentor of mine once told me that he tells his students that the apostrophe in “it’s” represents the dot of the missing “i” in “is.” That’s (that has) always helped me remember [...]
It’s (It Is) Brilliant!
Posted in Writing, tagged punctuation, Writing on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Check this out: How To Use An Apostrophe
My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
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