http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:16:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en       Tomorrow morning, literally before the proverbial crack of dawn, I'll be hopping a "puddle hopper" on the first leg of my journey to the Lilly Conference on Teaching in Higher Education at Miami of Ohio. I'm already thinking and feeling. I can feel my inner fires getting stoked. I'm ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/11/17/a-quickie-on-motivation/      This morning, on the chilly, damp, misty, pre-dawn streets, I started getting into the groove, to go inside myself, to put on my game face, as I begin to prepare for my workshop on creating a motivating classroom for the Lilly Conference on Collegiate Teaching next week at Miami ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/11/12/educations-enemy/ Well, the semester is coming to a close. November is just beginning and it's almost gone. The flow of my November is always disrupted by five "high" days at the Lilly conference on teaching at Miami University and the equally long Turkey Day break. Then, the students return in the ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/11/08/caring-lived/       69! Yesterday! Ugh. Double ugh! At least, I got to dive into Susan's deliciously wicked birthday cheese cake it took her two days to bake. Yesterday shouldn't have been. My three mile power walk this morning shouldn't have been. By all odds, I should be dead from a massive ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/11/02/me-and-circumstances/        Boy, I just got cussed out yesterday off list from a professor at a western university for being a "Glenn Beck type" because my last short Random Thought was "the straw that broke the camel's back." Her message was not what you would call collegial. I mean it was ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/10/25/wholeness-education/      I've been toying with the idea of replacing my computer. But, it's proving to be formidable and unnerving. Everywhere I go and everything I read and everyone to whom I talk indicate that all the files I've got backed up using Windows XP will not be read on Windows ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/10/24/shelf-life/        I was just reading a message from a professor at a mid-western university who was belittling students by making fun of their "silly bloopers." And I thought: the stories we tell about students reveal who we are, who we believe they are, and the nature of our relationships with ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/10/21/our-stories-about-students/ I just came in from a meditative walk thinking about a bunch of journal entries I've been reading since I came back from the Lilly-North conference. Aside from the ravages of H1N1, aside from Homecoming Week, aside from the coming of that silly Fall Break next week, and aside from ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/10/11/cardio-centric/         As I struggled to catch up with student journals, A statement made by Lou Foltz at the Lilly conference kept ringing in my head: we are feeling people who think, not thinking people who feel. Then, I read Madeline's journal entry last night and his words resounded as loudly ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/10/03/the-power-of-a-smile/ Very early Sunday morning. Sleepless leaving Traverse City. Thoughts and feelings are racing through my mind and heart. In the plane somewhere over the East coast heading for Jacksonville, rushing home before Kol Nidre. Feeling heady after three whirlwind days of the Lilly-North conference on collegiate teaching. I really don't ... http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/2009/09/30/my-thirty-second-summary/