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this is it the end of the semester all papers are in all projects are in classes are no longer in session and i have no finals my obligations academic ones anyway are over for the semester i have to say that this was one challenging semester and i am quite happy it s done next semester i am finishing off my med in instructional design and with a little luck and possibly lots of studying in one year s time i will be done with my ma in applied linguistics as well i ve started to slowly read my materials for next semester yeah i know the semester is barely over and i am already starting up again well i learned long ago that in grad school this may apply to undergrads as well that the old greek proverb των φρονίμων τα παιδιά πριν πεινάσουν μαγειρεύουν is very true the proverb loosely translated says kids of proper parents cook before they are hungry i guess it s sort of like the boy scout motto always be prepared post a comment read more down to the wire get link facebook x pinterest email other apps december 04 2009 ok this is it all hands on deck i guess that gives me a grand total of two hands projects are due on tuesday no commentary for the next week or so on instructional design linguistics or academia because research papers are due but thanks to steve kaufman cammy bean and karl kapp and many others i have a ton to write about once i am done with my school work ok no more messing around now back to research post a comment read more buzzwords get link facebook x pinterest email other apps december 01 2009 ok ok i was going to start the month off with something more serious that response to sk for example but the semester is almost over my brain power is taken up with more homework paper related things i e getting them done on time and it s december first so here s another little humorous start to your academic month i wonder if google has indexed all academic articles going back like they ve done with books perhaps a google trends on articles would be a fun thing to do on spare time post a comment read more happy turkey day for those in the us get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 26 2009 i was going to wrap up the month now that i generally post on a tuesday thursday schedule with some thoughts on steve kaufman s semi recent rant on theorists muddling language education however since it is a holiday in the us and i am inclined to post something more light hearted and humorous here s a recent xkcd comic on the differences between academia and the real world i think that some of my friends out there will get a good laugh be safe don t eat too much those of you who are celebrating thanksgiving and do spend some time on homework the end of the semester is near post a comment read more cloud computing in plain english get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 24 2009 i like common craft videos and i was a little disappointed that i had not seen a new one for a while well the good folks over at common craft have created a video for cloud computing i think that i sense a change in direction here for these videos previous videos seemed to be more for the layperson enduser however this particular video seems to be targeted toward the layperson manager interesting but not as entertaining as the other ones post a comment read more command structure get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 19 2009 happy almost weekend i just loved this phd strip from a week or so ago everything is predicated on doing the least amount of work which is work that doesn t waste time hahaha post a comment read more busy month get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 17 2009 wow this semester is really really moving along quite fast this month is just flying by and december is going to be quite literally two class sessions lots of stuff is due lots of papers final projects critical essays wow so what s on my plate observation analysis lesson plan for my esl methods materials class complete thematic unit lesson plan for my foreign language methods class yes they are different critical analysis essay for my foreign language methods class plus an evaluation of a classmate s essay evaluation plan for an elearning class see kirkpatrick for details put the finishing touches on the academic integrity training that i am creating finish off the rough draft of my capstone i guess i don t really have to do my capstone stuff given that i am actually supposed to do it next semester but i am really into it so it s hard to put something down when you ve got a lot of inspiration for it on top of all that i post a comment read more multilingualism please get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 11 2009 i guess that by this point you ve guessed that i am a language geek among other types of geek a week or so ago i was reading this opinion piece titled only english spoken on inside higher ed the author goes through a synopsis of historical liberal arts education and the role that foreign languages played in it the general view of the opinion piece which you should read by the way is that if you are only monolingual you are denied access to a lot of inside knowledge while a lot of information may be available in your native language english for example in most cases in the us and a lot of information is available in english science and technology related information in my case there is a corpus of knowledge both written and spoken that is not available in english and that knowledge is inaccessible if you don t know that language i happen to agree with this point of view and i do agree that as college graduates from us universities we should be at least bi post a comment read more getting that warm fuzzy feeling of i ve been there done that get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 09 2009 i guess this is one of those self congratulatory blog posts i ll try not to be too cocky about it anyway recently a colleague of mine sent me this blog post from the eduguru blog the blog post is interesting to read so you should go ahead and do that the quick highlights though are these 1 college wants to do something exclusive for new students 2 college creates online exclusive community 3 college uses ning to do it there have been many instances where i ve had ideas for things that would make student s lives easier but this is one idea that i actually grabbed and ran with it and the result if the umass id community on ning of course my goals weren t just to welcome new students my goal was to create a community of practice made up of current students newly accepted students to the program and of alumni people can come and be welcomed by a community of practitioners they can find information about the program what they need to do to gra post a comment read more intro to instructional design what should it be part 2 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 06 2009 ok so in the last post i covered the model to be used in an introduction to instructional design class now the model should not be the focus of the course the model should be an overarching theme that can be used to tie other elements together and to be used in producing a final project in the course in an intro class i could expect the following introduction to some learning theories theories like behaviorism constructivism and so on just give people a 30 000 foot view of the theoretical knowledge in the field semester project this would be a project that would make students think about all the steps required to design instruction the topic could be something as mundane as making a spanish omelet or a monte cristo sandwich the point here is that students will need to think about everything that needs to go into instruction and create the instruction this would be a group project no more than 3 members mini research papers nothing crazy just 2 papers in a semes post a comment read more intro to instructional design what should it be part 1 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 04 2009 in the past couple of months i ve had some interesting discussions with colleagues and classmates about the introduction to instructional design class that we ve taken in our instructional design program it s interesting that people generally tend to fall into one of two camps the anti dick carey camp and the for dick carey camp before i go on let me just say that our program uses the dick carey model for approaching instructional design the camp that loves the dick carey model likes it for breaking down the process into discreet steps they don t like models like addie or assure because they view them as sloppy on the other camp the dick carey haters i ve heard arguments that the intro to id course should not be a course on dick carey even though dick carey might be a great model to use in real life do you really have time for all those steps i think that the truth lies somewhere between both camps i think tha post a comment read more new media is dumb is like txting waaaaaah get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 02 2009 i really wish i could do an adam sessler like video podcast on this complete with sessler like sarcasm oh well i think i will keep it to text i was reading an article on inside higher ed a couple of weeks ago and i was waiting to see what comments this story would bring up alas only about 13 comments in any case the blog post here is essentially about collaborative learning using technologies like blogs and wikis in the classroom and making the knowledge available to the world and having it be accessible after the course ends something that is currently not done in blackboard i ve written about this topic before so it s nice to see others picking it up the story here isn t really the blog post itself but rather the comments that were left on the story by various members of ihe what i find amazing are comments like these i spend too much of my time trying to get students to punctuate capitalize and more generally to not write as if they re t post a comment read more course offering some thoughts get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 30 2009 i was reading university diaries on insidehighered the other day and i came across this point counterpoint point c atalogue copy is prepared yearly sometimes twice yearly which means that universities are almost always lying about their programs let s say a student applies to a department because it offers a specialty he is interested in and he arrives to find that the key players the ones he wanted to study with departed last month it s hard to see why he should have a legal remedy there is really no one to blame counterpoint has fish not heard of the computer students rarely get course information from slowly prepared print media everything s online now including catalogue copy so there s no reason why it can t be updated rapidly and constantly again i agree with him that legal remedies for complaints about this are absurd but he s not acknowledging the reality of universities the problem s not the slow publication of information i have post a comment read more congitive overload get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 28 2009 i love slideshare you can find some pretty exciting presentations on there here is a primer on cognitive overload chris atherton at tcuk09 view more documents from chris atherton post a comment read more core principles in research get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 26 2009 i love the phd comic strip post a comment read more strategies for graduate student success get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 23 2009 ok i fibbed i am not going to give you the magic bullet that will make you an uber student being able to tackle three graduate classes a family and full time work heck i don t have those answers to give the situations recently where people tried to tap into the secrets i have for being able to manage a full graduate course load plus a full time job made me think of a seminar that i had as an undergraduate called study smarter not harder at the time i was overwhelmed with working two part time jobs 45 55 hours per week plus a full course load 4 courses i was tired i was stressed and i was looking for a magic bullet when i went to this seminar i thought to myself whaaaat seriously your tip is not not leave things till the last minute wow now that is a revelation my workflow i e tips or magic bullet works for me but it is not a guarantee that it works for everyone and in all situations so post a comment read more moodle and web 2 0 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 21 2009 i cam across this presentation recently on moodle and web 2 0 features web 2 0 tools and techniques view more presentations from mark drechsler yes it is quite interesting but i think that lms creators are missing the point the reason why web 2 0 is popular is because you are not in a walled garden the content is open to the greater internet using community and you ve got many many users creating posting remixing tagging and categorizing this information in an lms you ve got 30 people max and at the end of the semester that work is lost to the student and it s not accessible to new students in essence at the end of each semester you have a tabula rasa web 2 0 will work for education in some instances if the walled garden approach is taken however it will really fly if we move beyond the mindset of each semester being a separate island if we want to use web 2 0 tools effectively post a comment read more a successful student get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 19 2009 i ve had a couple of interactions with recent grad students tapping into my knowledge of the system there is no doubt that in each person s mind they want to be a successful student however the definition of what a successful student is varies from person to person some people want to be a successful student that takes as many courses as possible in order to graduate as soon as possible they generally seem to look for courses that are low impact so that they can get that coveted easy a i guess this would be the grad school equivalent of speed dating but instead of partners it s courses and and the end of the night instead of a name and number your get a degree in my opinion this isn t being a successful student in many respects it s probably a short term success and a long term failure so do grades not matter should we take the slow path through grad school those are silly questions no you should not take the slow path through post a comment read more open source textbooks get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 16 2009 file this under random thoughts so we ve been talking about textbooks in my linguistics classes for the last couple of semesters and how most of them suck when it comes to language learning my classmates who do teach languages for 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