Pedagogy —
There are two things to do in the first class of the semester: establish the usual organizational details, and help people decide if they should really take the class or not. “Help” can of course be replaced by persuasion (manipulation, deception, etc. as your personal ethic permits) if you need a dramatic change in enrollment […]
Well, I guess I did promise to try to reconstitute my notes from the AGU mass communication sessions I attended. Like many reconstituted foods, this might be a touch gritty-pasty…
I made it to two of the communication talks in between all the Science. Talk the first: Karen McCurdy on How Congress Stopped Communicating with Geologists. […]
Now that I’m safely curled up in my old room, time to take a whack at the ol’ pile of provocations:
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Rad Geek on the Bill of Rights:
The Garrisonians, because so many of them were fervently religious, talked about a higher law than the Constitution; that’s partly right, but in a sense it’s also a matter […]
Let’s see. Would my presentation be more improved by:
A thorough understanding the material to be covered (mantle convection and the thermal evolution of terrestrial planets) and clear exposition of the salient points of recent scientific history; or…
…pictures of Donald Turcotte’s head crudely photoshopped on to the body of a fighting nun puppet!
If my luck holds, […]
I’m sick and tired of being a student, of having these wafer-thin boundaries between work and the rest of my life, of being in a position where people can legitimately claim time from every single part of my day for extra recitation sessions or labs or committee meetings or whatever other crap comes up. And […]
You see, last year on an introductory geology field trip, about five or six of us were walking back to the bus when a professor called out stop! you’re being chased by a walking petrology lesson! He caught up, showed us a chunk of granite, and said some things about crystal growth and feldspar zones […]
I went to the Dean of Students today, because my adviser is out of town and I needed someone to sign a small yellow paperwork. The Dean has gone a bit loopy from a prolonged lack of meaningful feedback on his natterings. He humbled and hooed over my schedule for a little bit, signed the […]