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		<title>a real world few students wanted</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/06/02/a-real-world-few-students-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach the first year composition sequence at a community college. These are required writing courses for all transfer students&#8211;the majority of the students who pass through the institution. With very few exceptions, I would say that these two courses are probably the least looked-forward to by students of the entire gen-ed curriculum. Many just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ecological thinking and doing</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/02/13/ecological-thinking-and-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, my teaching has cultivated critical dialogue amongst students on social issues&#8211;education, gender, ethnic/racial conflict, classism, and so on. I raise questions; that&#8217;s what I do. Truth be told, my personal agenda is clearly a progressive one; although, I am very careful not to stack the deck against students with contrary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>grading contracts, gastropods, and the occasional breakthrough</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/12/03/grading-contracts-gastropods-and-the-occasional-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the semester is winding down and despite my best efforts to create a positive learning environment for all the participants in my class, I am still feeling a decent amount of animosity and negativity coming from my students. Such is the pattern, it seems, each semester. But still, I thought this semester would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>confessions of an unschooling college professor</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/06/04/confessions-of-an-unschooling-college-professor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an unschooling dad&#8211;a life learner. This is the life my wife Chris, my six-year-old son Aidan, and I embrace quite fully. I am also a college professor&#8211;part of a state-run institution of higher learning. How can I reconcile these contradictions? How can I on one hand eschew &#8220;teaching&#8221; as a somewhat rude imposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a community writing center</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/19/a-community-writing-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a writing teacher and a college writing center director, this project by Dave Eggers really caught my eye. He set up a storefront in his neighborhood in SF to help kids with writing. I saw Eggers last March at a conference in SF. He’s a smart and motivated guy (and a helluva good writer). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this i know, fall 2009</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/12/19/this-i-know-fall-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The semester has finally come to a close, and that means there is another installment of &#8220;This I Know: Students Speaking with Conviction.&#8221; Check out the site, give a listen, and leave a comment or two. This is a project that I&#8217;ve been running for the past few years. It&#8217;s based on the national essay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the hard bigotry of low expectations</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/11/20/the-soft-hard-bigotry-of-low-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting harder and harder for me to keep fighting the good fight&#8211;to expect anything other than mediocrity from me, from my students, and from the apathetic masses barely shuffling through life. The other day, I received this all-caps e-mail from a student&#8217;s mother. I changed the case because the all-caps hurt my eyes. Dear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>where have our savios gone?</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/10/10/where-are-have-our-savios-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the age of 21, Mario Savio gave his &#8220;Against the Wheels&#8221; speech and emerged as &#8220;the nation’s most prominent student leader.&#8221; He and 800 others were arrested the day he gave this speech in &#160;&#160;Mario Savio, 19651964 in protest to UC Berkely&#8217;s ban on campus-based political activity and fund-raising. Savio was attempting to raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>teaching and learning out loud</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/07/28/teaching-and-learning-out-loud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I&#8217;ve been experimenting with a new approach to teaching and learning online. I&#8217;ve officially (ok, secretly) broken from my institution&#8217;s BlackBoard learning management system in favor of an open-source, decentralized alternative. This summer &#160;&#160;A screaming fossil?we are using a WordPress MU installation bolstered by the social networking component BuddyPress and further supplemented with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why limiting book choice is a bad idea: 10 reasons</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/05/05/why-limiting-book-choice-is-a-bad-idea-10-reasons/</link>
		<comments>http://writing101.net/2009/05/05/why-limiting-book-choice-is-a-bad-idea-10-reasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently at my institution, we&#8217;ve been fighting against some pressure by the administration for First Year Composition department faculty to limit the number of texts used across their department for a single course to one or two. This pressure is coming under the pretense of cutting costs for students, which of course everyone at the [...]]]></description>
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