This is from one of my newest favorite blogs called Indexed. Every weekday the author posts a picture of an index card with a graph or chart that represents a way that she makes sense of things. Some are quite funny, and some, like this one, are simply right. If you have time to kill [...]
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Read Good Stuff
Posted in Blogs, Writing, reading, tagged blog, reading, Writing on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On Plagiarism (Cont.)
Posted in Academic Honesty, Higher Education, Writing, tagged highereducation, plagiarism, Writing on February 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And while I am on the topic of plagiarism, let me share this visual perspective of plagiarism from “What Plagiarism Looks Like“
45 Credits – And She’s A Better Writer, Too!
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, PLA, Writing on November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today we celebrate Chrissi Antonopoulos, a Business & Leadership major who just completed a 45-credit Prior Learning Assessment portfolio. 45 credits is the maximum number of PLA credits students can earn, and Chrissi achieved it! Here are the topics she wrote for:
BIO 164: Introduction to Human Anatomy
BIO 165: Alternatives to Health and Healing
CCM 322: Interpersonal [...]
Re-Read, And Then Re-Read Again
Posted in PLA, Writing, tagged highereducation, PLA, Writing on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I am reading PLA essays and lots (and lots and lots) of them! For those of you in the midst of revising and editing your essays, let me offer this nugget of writing wisdom:
“If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading [...]
She’s Ready For What’s Next
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, education, knowledge, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Congrats to Debra Giannini!
Debra just completed her 15-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio. Debra is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Psychology and Expressive Therapies. The topics she wrote for are:
BIO 165 – Alternatives in Health and Healing
BIO 167 – Nutritional Science
CHS 354 – Environment, Culture, and Food
CCM 342 – Rhythm-Based Communication
SPP 371 – [...]
A Gift That Keeps On Giving
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Life, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ty Wells, a Business & Leadership major, just submitted his Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio totaling 27 credits. Ty’s experience resides mostly in the food and hospitality industry, and he was able to use those learning experiences to write PLA essays for the following courses:
Conflict Management
Public Presentations
Team Building
Foodservice Organizations
Management Fundamentals
Introduction to Winemaking
Foodservice Production and Principles
Small Business [...]
When The Realm Of Possibility Nears
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, Learning, PLA, Writing on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My colleague Jackie Fowler loaned me a book called Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom, by Peter Levitt. Two gems from it stood out to me, so let me share them here.
The first gem speaks to how we sometimes feel when we begin something new that will require our [...]
The PLA Happy Dance
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, dance, highereducation, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Learning to walk set you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are. -Melissa Hayden
Here in the PLA department, we like to dance — usually more figuratively than literally, but sometimes we literally dance as well, depending on who’s looking. There is [...]
On Writing: Separating Your Socks from Your Underwear
Posted in Higher Education, Laundry, Writing, tagged highereducation, Writing on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was teaching an academic writing class a few years back and one of my students came up with a great metaphor for sorting and organizing ideas for the purposes of writing an academic essay. She said that sorting and organizing her ideas was just like sorting and organizing her family’s laundry – something she [...]
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