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The comment post
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Conclusively
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Overall I’m pretty happy with how this blogging went. I got a little off track with the classics at time but I enjoyed exploring the wider territory. I think I’ve determined that classics are still a great thing to teach but it would be awesome if we could implement technology into their teaching to make [...]
Technology Conference
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I attended a Technology Conference at Grand Valley’s Pew Campus. Since I wasn’t able to attend the Bright Ideas Conference, I shall write about that.
The Keynote, given by Dr. Peter Doolittle, was quite a good introduction to the conference. The speaker had many things to say about how technology could be implemented [...]
The best storytellers always seem to exaggerate.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Quotes in this entry are from the following article:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/4691912.html
This article is about To Kill a Mockingbird and the legitimacy of it’s inclusion in the literary canon. This entry may be meaningless for those of you who have not read the book, but there somewhat of a description of it in the article that could [...]
A bit of religion to spice things up.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Quotes in this entry are from the following article:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55090
First of all I must point out that this article was apparently written by Chuck Norris. The article is about teaching the bible in school. It starts out with some facts:
“Three hundred eighty-two public school districts have voted to implement a course on it.
Over [...]
Classic epics with updated graphics?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Quotes in this entry are from the following article:
http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2007/070416/07041607.htm
This article is about a teacher, Roger Travis, who uses video games to help teach classical literature. I find this to be quite a creative approach. He uses something many students are interested in, Halo, to help them understand something they may not be as [...]
The Business of Education and Corruption
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Quotes in this entry are from the following article:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-04-15-textbooks-congress_N.htm
While perusing through my Google Reader, I encountered an article that caught my attention. It doesn’t relate as much to classics as it does to textbooks, but I thought it was important since anthologies often determine what classics are taught. The article is titled “Multibillion [...]
Podcast
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is our podcast about Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card.
http://www2.gvsu.edu/~farrarc/podcast.mp3
Podcast by Chris Farrar, Jenny Liebig, Ashley Orr, and Kelly Murphy.
Books and Fish
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The quote in this entry are from Chapter 2 of The Message In the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy. Chapter 2 is entitled “The Loss of the Creature.” I found this excerpt through a friend of mine.
“A [...]
Books aren’t for your entertainment.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The quotes in this entry are from an article titled “Books? What’re Those?” from the blog of xTiffanyx located at the Progressive U website on 2/28/07.
“Do we read to learn anymore? Or do we read to entertain ourselves?” These questions make me think about my own reasons for reading. Do I read merely [...]
