Every college should have a front porch, a place where students can actually learn something. Discipleship is just a kind of hospitality after all.
Category: teaching
dear unhappy student
We can work very hard at something and still fail because the amount of effort is no measure of success. Hardworking people fail as spouses, parents and bosses every day.
keeping up with convergence
Will one of my students be the first to publish a Pulitzer Prize article that isn't distributed on a piece of paper? In Ecclesiastes we are told that of making many books there is no end. But the Preacher wrote that with a quill on a parchment. The technology changes.
The online instructor as shepherd
....from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people .... And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them. Psalm 78:72-73 Much of the conversation about the role of an instructor in online learning falls out generally along the line of teacher vs. coach, or… Continue reading The online instructor as shepherd
An abomination
We ran a series of posters on campus to promote a lecture series I direct, and at least one person really hated them. That would be the person who tacked one of them on my office door, with these words scrawled in black magic marker: "This is an Abomonation For EVERYTHING This school stands for! You should be ashamed! [sic]"
the daysman 