Monthly Archives: February 2010

Argh! Serial Review! Literary Journals! Tough Choices!

By Iris | Published: Thursday, February 25th, 2010
It’s time for our biennial serial review. This one feels kind of like being kicked when down because we did a big review to sync up Carleton and St. Olaf last winter, and then we did a voluntary cut last spring when the stock market decided to have a bigger say than usual in our [...]
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Credo

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
This I believe: The classroom is about learning, not teaching. Learning happens best when it is directly and explicitly tied to and relevant to a project at hand. Learning happens best when it builds on existing knowledge. This is why getting some sense of where the students are (such as talking to them before launching [...]
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The Crazy Thing about Linguistic Research

By Iris | Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Just when you think you have something nailed down, turns out you were holding a cherry tomato and the nail just made the whole thing explode. I’m constantly figuring out how to be a better librarian to the disciplines I serve. I have pretty deep knowledge of the ways of literary research, since that was [...]
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Beyond Course-Integrated Instruction: An Example from Linguistics

By Iris | Published: Monday, February 1st, 2010
I just finished teaching this term’s installment of one of my least usual classes. This is a class that takes the idea of course-integrated instruction to an even more integrated level. There are trade-offs, for sure, but it remains one of my favorite sessions to teach. The General Idea I show up for one class [...]
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