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In Celebration of Last Access Class for Spring 2011
The students had a great time showing off their final products — Ann with her brochure for Deaf patient advocacy; Tara came later but we got to see some awesome video clips starring a few Deaf individuals, and one created by Mj herself. Hers was really funny. We plan to use these videos for Deaf Awareness Week. In this project group, I find humor, intellect, compassion, and many other good stuff. I feel happy to watch researchers enjoy each other’s company, turn goofy sometimes, collaborate and show the way for…
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AERA 2011 Learning Experience
AERA NOLA Apr 7-12. It is taking me a while to resettle into Syracuse. I feel out of touch with my dissertation writing after all my professional duties at AERA. But I wouldn’t have given it up for anything. This is an experience no formal course can ever teach me. I love meeting and working with people from other universities who are now my friends. When I go to AERA, I don’t feel alone or lonely; I belong to a community. Being a GSC rep will definitely count as a…
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Resilience
In an interview with Elizabeth Edwards, Matt Lauer read the last paragraph in Edwards’ book aloud: “I have said before that I do not know what the most important lesson is that I will ever teach my children, Cate and Emma Claire and Jack. I do know that when they are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm, and when the wind did not go her way — and surely it has not — she adjusted…
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Emotional Connection
Affective development, affect-sensitive learning environments, affective experiences. These are huge research areas, but specifically for now, I’m interested in emotional engagement because knowledge (and/or cognitive potential) alone is inadequate at producing change in behaviors or attitudes. In conceptualizing my dissertation, now and before, emotional engagement has always been one of the areas I am interested in exploring. I stumbled upon Chris Koch’s posting on building emotional engagement for B2B marketing. It added a layer to my thinking about my dissertation. My earlier posts had indicated that I’m conceptualizing the use…
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Lessons in Atlanta
Hurriedly I came, and hurriedly I left. To check out NAGC. It was interesting, attended by a large number of teachers, I think. It has been a long time since I’ve been in a gifted ed environment. I attended a session (amongst others) by Dr. Mark Runco, creativity research scholar, which was more a Q&A session. I must say I was surprised by his youthfulness. I seem to have this misconception that he is a distinguished elderly gentleman because of his extensive body of research. How wrong I was. ;-P…
