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I had my worst day as an Odyssey instructor today. I was tired and my students were tired. I was not feeling well and several of my students have colds. It was a rough hour and a half. 3 of my students came to class late. They disrupted everything and really messed up […]
I would like to thank everyone who has been reading and commenting on my blog. It’s nice to know that people still like to read about vacuums and rabid bees.
I recently started keeping track of my web site statistics via StatCounter.com. The nice thing about web data is the fact that you can see […]
The Devaluation of Women in the Workplace: Oppression by occupation or gender?
My mother grew up driving tractors, riding horses, and milking cows on a farm in Iowa. Her two brothers, one older and one younger, were competent in the same skills as my mother. I remember dinner table conversations that would reference the amazing […]
Personal Learning Outcomes:
• General overarching outcome — To continue learning about multicultural perspectives through selected readings and to create meaningful self-reflections and questions that will enhance/promote my multicultural competency.
• To continue exploring my own cultural heritage within the context of multiculturalism in a student affairs paradigm.
• To further my personal journey as a multiculturally […]
I hit the rack (props to Rem Nivens for the jargon!) last night at 1:30 AM. Today’s to-do list: Work for EM, Teach Odyssey, Read hundreds of pages of Student Affairs verbage for my Organization class, create a learning outcomes plan, read some Feminist Philosophies and work on my FP paper.
To use […]
Week 3 at OSU starts tomorrow. I am currently teaching my first-year experience course, Odyssey, as well as working with Student Conduct.
Odyssey:
Thus far my thoughts regarding my class are very mixed. My students had considerable amounts of confusion with my syllabus, the classroom is very traditionally oriented, and my guest speakers have been perfect.
The […]