I opened my email the other day to find this precious little announcement:
Dear Campus Community:
In light of the tragedy at Northern Illinois University on February 14th, I want to assure you that TCC has an emergency response plan in place to help ensure the safety of our campus. Your safety as well as the [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 28, 2008
The Plague Comes to TCC
February 28, 2008
Getting Serious
Okay, I’m starting to get serious about this Film as Literature course. Here’s what I’m thinking so far. Keep in mind that I’m still very much in progress and am looking for feedback and suggestions and critique:
For the purposes of this class, literature is defined as the stories we tell to help us define [...]
February 27, 2008
Grammar Wednesday
A few weeks ago, I got this email from Suzanne (sorry it’s taken me so long to get to you, Sooza!):
Okay, I have one for you. One of my colleagues and I were talking about the difference “fish” and “fishes.” The rule is that if you are talking about multiple fish of the same species, [...]
February 26, 2008
Whose Job IS It, Really?
For their weekend assignment, my composition class was tasked to read a single chapter in their texts about persuasive writing. In this chapter were brief, yet very clear and easily understandable definitions of common terms and concepts used in debate and persuasion: the straw man, the bandwagon appeal, that sort of thing.
Monday morning, I [...]
February 22, 2008
Objectives
Okay, Gang – how about this for a set of objectives? I boosted this directly from this course syllabus – like I said; I’m not interested in reinventing the wheel here, and these objectives feel pretty darned close to what I envision for my own course:
• Students will enhance their ability to understand, appreciate, and [...]
February 21, 2008
Professional Collaboration
Are you up for a little professional collaboration?
I want to put together a 16 week, college-level course in Film as Literature. My vision for this course is that it would be set up in a seminar format – viewing, discussion, writing, discussion, reading, discussion – and would focus almost entirely on film as works [...]
February 20, 2008
Grammar Wednesday
Sentence Fragments!
I haven’t seen a whole lot of bloggers who suffer from fragmentation – at least, not in their grammar; their lives are another story entirely – and I don’t read fanfic, so I’ve got no references there, but my students? Goodness, but those children can write fragments all day long and never think [...]
February 19, 2008
One Down…
Thank you all, VERY much, for your input about my cover letter. I made several of the changes you suggested – you were all exactly right about what needed fixing and I’m grateful for so many fresh eyes – and put together a package that I sent electronically this evening to my first [...]
February 18, 2008
Constructive Criticism
So! I’ve got my CV pretty much put together, and I’m happy with it. What I’m hoping for from you, Dear Readers, is some feedback on my cover letter. Mr. Chili thinks it’s just fine the way it is, but I’m hesitant; I’m not crazy about the third paragraph. What do [...]
February 15, 2008
WELL! Okay, Then!
It seems that Mrs. Chili is soon to be out of a job!
Chatty, who knows my superhero, secret identity, emailed me this evening with this little tidbit:
I just heard Joe Reporter on W-LOCAL NEWS announce TCC’s closing?? Did you know that was happening??
My answer to Chatty’s question was “welllll, sort of; but I had no [...]
