Archive for January, 2008

Implementing Organizational Resolutions

January is almost over, which means if you made a New Year’s resolution that necessitates the implementation of a whole new organization regimen, that all needs to happen before month’s end or you will have officially failed at that resolution. As far as organizing your life, you’ve basically got four choices (see below). Don’t be [ READ MORE ]

Feeding the OCD Tendencies

My world is better when all pertinent information is collected and listed. Lifehack.org just posted The Ultimate Student Resource List, thereby improving the alignment of the universe. Don’t you feel lighter, more organized, supremely in control of yourself and everything around you? I really, really, very much do. Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

The Teachers You Remember

I had the best fourth-grade teacher. He was amazing. Everyone loved him. I was in his guinea pig class—the class he had his first year teaching at our school. Before he showed up, the teacher population in the town’s only elementary school had been all female. I showed up on the first day of my [ READ MORE ]

The Theory of Gravity

Trying to come up with something professional and politically correct to say about this has proved fruitless. There are too many sweet spots to hit and if I start I won’t be able to stop. Inside Higher Ed had this up today: A new Web site has been created to serve as a clearinghouse for [ READ MORE ]

Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners

If you haven’t come across the OEDb (Online Education Database) site as of yet, your first perusal should be their awesome article/list: The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners. It’s pretty cool considering they had to keep the list at a manageable one hundred. It’s neat and tidy, solid but simple. Plus, [ READ MORE ]

Write “Buffalos and Dinosaurs” in Cursive

I’m not sure if it’s a nostalgia twinge for my elementary school days or if it’s just my own weirdnesses with regards to these, our modern keyboard-centric times, but I’m a little sad to learn that cursive writing might soon be a thing of the past. It’s being slowly phased out in schools. I fully [ READ MORE ]

Composing A Life

The Williams College Alumni Review has an article up that’s worth reading. It’s all about the Winter Study course Williams offers: “Composing a Life: Finding Success and Balance in Life After Williams.” Do I even need to explain how helpful I would have found a course like that before finishing college and heading out blindly [ READ MORE ]

Don’t Take Education For Granted

This is how damn lucky I am: my biggest complaint with regards to my daughter’s elementary school is that the parents are so excited about their kids’ education that the overall vibe among the parents seems to be: “If you have time to breathe, you’re not doing enough.” They want every at-home parent to funnel [ READ MORE ]