February 2010 Blog Posts (15)

Hello to all the foreign-language professors out there. This is just a quick note to let you know that my blog deals with more than Spanish. My postings refresh about every week or two and deal with language-learning generally, as well as teaching and learning a foreign language. There are also postings that are of interest to professional translators. I invite you to come explore its archives and post questions…

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A short post to welcome a new blog about collective behavior: "Collective Behavior: From Cells to Animals to Us" (http://iloapp.collective-behavior.com/blog/blog).

This brand new website is run by three young leaders in the field of

collective behavior: David Sumpter, Audrey Dussutour and Iain Couzin.

This blog aims at sharing news, ideas and information about research… Continue

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1. Strong teaching maximizes student potential, but cannot alter student potential—a gallon won’t fit in a quart jar. This is politically incorrect, but a reality in schools.
2. Teaching is one among many influences on test scores. Many of the other influences are major and…

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February is “Black History Month.” In 1926 Carter G. Woodson initiated this annual commemoration. By doing so, Dr. Woodson intended to stimulate scholarly and popular interest and inquiry into all aspects of

African American life, history, culture and politics.

Evidence-based research mattered to Professor Woodson. He understood the human tendency to emphasize the familiar and to avoid confronting evidence that challenges one’s…

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To continue the tales of a full time temp hire.

In order to make ends meet the university has decided to cut pay for lecturers and increase teaching requierments for senior instructors (they have 3 year contracts). At the same time, instructors have been told that we will be teaching more students per class.

Somewhere you would think that there was consideration of motivations. You need to wonder at what point instructors will either a) unionize or b) walk out.…

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Source: Mashable.com



http://mashable.com/2010/02/03/stanford-offers-up-millions-of-books-in-support-of-google-book-search/



Today, Stanford University threw its hat into the ring for Google by expanding an earlier agreement with the search giant and agreeing to digitize the University’s library. The move comes amidst legal controversy over the Google Book… Continue

National & International Reach



The courses at UW-Stout are open to learners from around the world. Over the years in addition to North America, I've worked with people from most of the countries of Europe,… Continue

Walking into our offices the other day, I found myself in the middle of a gripe session about proposed changes to teaching duties. What was unusual is that this came from one of the other adjuncts and not from tenured faculty. She was complaining that senior instructors were going to teach an additional course without any additional pay.



I can honestly say that since I regularly teach 5 or 6 courses, I was not sympathetic. See, I am the lowest of the tenures, I am hired by course.… Continue