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Monthly Archives June 2007

FactCheckEd

FactCheckEd.org is an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It’s designed to help students learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day. Our site is a sister to the award-winning Annenberg Political Fact Check, which goes by the Internet address [...]

Posted 22 June 2007 † Ray Watkins § Language § Miscellaneous § Online Places § Union § War § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

How Not to Use Powerpoint

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Posted 20 June 2007 † Ray Watkins § Language § Miscellaneous § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Fast Education, Part II

Parents and students “have no solid evidence, comparable across institutions, of how much students learn in colleges or whether they learn more at one college than another” (13). To address these problems, the Spellings commission urges a number of reforms. The most controversial is that, to improve accountability, “higher education institutions should measure student learning” [...]

Posted 18 June 2007 † Ray Watkins § Composition § Language § Online Places § Professional § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Fast-Education

A major factor for e-learning’s growth potential is the part-time or adjunct instructor. Each adjunct costs about 20 percent (or less) of a full-time counterpart on a per-class basis.6 An adjunct professor often receives no office, phone, mailbox, computer, health benefits, and so forth, and needs another full-time job to survive… The growth of part-time [...]

Posted 15 June 2007 † Ray Watkins § Autobiographical § Composition § Economics § Language § Online Places § Professional § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °