I was a student of a professor who is very successful by academic standards. He has published books and articles, won multiple teaching awards, and established institutes and centers at his university. Those things are great. But what I remember is the personal interest he took in his students. I remember lectures that were engaging. The challenges he set before us and the high standards he held. The time he spent reviewing our work with us. Those things made him successful to me.

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As far as questions that I have for the CORE seminar, I'd like to discuss issues of teaching a large lecture-based class, methods of organizing lectures that seem to be affective for undergraduate students. I'd also like to talk about academic policies (academic integrity, attendance, drop policies, etc.) that I should be aware of at Baylor.

One of my teachers from high school significantly impacted my perception of education through his diligence and willingness to push each student. He taught courses in Psychology and European History, and held high standards for each individual. Particularly in the European History course, he set up a rigorous course of study by diversifying lectures, discussing primary sources, and creating many writing assignments. He not only encouraged discussion but required it, by basically making us talk and orally defend our ideas. As a teacher, he was also very accessible when we encountered problems with the coursework willing to discuss any issues. However, he rarely gave in to our grumbling on the amount of work we had to accomplish. His methods of making us think and create our own ideas did not just prepare us for college history courses, but helped us create methods for taking in material, defend our thoughts, and recognize how much vigor academic endeavors actually need. Out of the 15 students who were in that class, nearly all of us are in graduate school right now (in many different fields) or pursuing careers in education. I believe that a little bit of credit should go to that teacher.

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I remember Bryan talking about the Flickr component at the presentation he did at ELI Annual, and it was very cool. If no one minds, I'll take this on. Do we have any specfic Flickr story in mind? And I'm assuming we can get the images from Flickr Create Commons--http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons? I may need a refresher about how this was done.

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No matter how many times I tried to fix it, that link kept messing itself up.

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Education as an augmentation system: thinking together augments individual thinking
Does language shape the way we think or does the way we think shape language?
Training wheels: dumb down computer language instead of teaching people computer language

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Please sign up for a conference time to discuss your class project and progress.

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"We are still sounding out the letters when we think about thinking about computers." An interesting idea, because outside of my obvious obsession with language, it has so much potential. Fluency, insight, and rapid problem solving. Thinking about thinking. Computers will allow us to visualize the complex structure so that the 7 boxes within the mind can now contain multiple boxes within them. A sort of Russian nesting doll for the mind. Very cool.

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Please remember to find an extension cord/adapter...

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I posted the objectives as a new page. I would have a thread instead but it was over the character limit.

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