Tag Archives: Teaching
My hard working students
This is my view from the instructor station in my Westminster College classroom. I teach 15 wonderful students on Wednesday nights this semester. I am teaching the basic web design course for graduate students. These students are absolutely wonderful and a dream to teach. They work so hard, and they participate in class quite a [...]
Meeting with Westminster students
Today I went to Westminster College to meet with a couple of students asking for help on their class projects. They are required to make a website this semester, and we are at the point where they are starting to have unique problems with their code. I met my students in the adjunct office. The [...]
Teaching contract
I now have my new social security card, so I can finally become official with my teaching at the University of Utah and Westminster College. I will finally be able to be paid. It has been a bit of a mess as I have searched the whole house looking for my old card. I finally [...]
I love my new job!
I started teaching at Westminster tonight. I am loving it already. These are my Westminster students for the semester. Don’t they look like a good looking bunch? They are awfully nice. This is going to be a good bunch of students. They all want to be there, and they are already motivated to do well [...]
One Year Ago, Today
January 30, 2008… I had my hysterectomy. It saved my life. I am so happy about this. Today is a one year anniversary for me, and I have been celebrating it all day. Mostly while I was teaching Illustrator level 1 to four students. I had been told that it would take a year to [...]
I worry about my students’ learning
I spend a lot of time worrying if my students are learning the complex topics that I teach them. This is especially pertinent when my students have to go out and use the skills I teach. This means that I must make sure they transfer their skills while they are learning. What a difficult task [...]
Technology Education and Problem Solving
I have been thinking a lot about how to teach my Technology Education students how to problem solve; this is really important when you are trying to teach your students in situated learning? When they leave my classroom and return to their offices, they will undoubtedly have problems implementing their new skills nearly right away. [...]
Evaluating Technology Education Course Design
I have spent a lot of time talking with you about updating your technology education to improve learning for very complex topics. This week’s post is about evaluating already existing curriculum. An assignment for my 1 credit hour course that accompanies me teaching a for-credit course involved getting midterm evaluations from students and then assessment [...]
What are your student’s technology education goals?
Course Goals OK… so you are teaching a technology class and you have it all planned out. Of course, you need to teach discrete steps so your students can learn how to use the software or write the code–whatever you are teaching. I have discussed planning your course with meaningful goals, such as when you [...]
My second semester teaching undergraduates
I am learning the difficulties and joys of teaching undergraduates. Many of them are young and idealistic, but at the same time they are not mature enough to realize how important and unique they are in attending a higher education institution. Many do not realize how fortunate they are and how valuable their learning is.
