I’m neck deep in syllabi. When my students return on August 13, they’ll get the shiny, new syllabus I updated just for their class. (Re-)designing any course (for me, anyhow) is usually about answering “how am I going to grade this?” I refactored all of my syllabi to reflect improvements, especially in grading. Here are [...]
Archive for July, 2007
The Creative Commons folks just announced a new division, called ccLearn, devoted to dropping the barriers to sharing and reusing educational materials. ccLearn’s first project will make it easier to locate already-published open education resources. (Thanks to a Boing Boing article for the pointer.) Technorati Tags: creativecommons, copyright, education, teaching
My favorite grammar writer, Lynne Truss (of Eats, Shoots and Leaves fame) has written two children’s books. The Girl’s Like Spaghetti and Eats, Shoots and Leaves (the latter is a kids’ version). I had the chance to flip through them and was really impressed. From the Amazon.com book description: Just as the use of commas [...]
