Random Thought: A Cause To Pause

2003-07-31 Thread Pollak, Edward
I guess I take offense because a) the content of the letter was so ambiguous that I really don't understand the specifics of her complaints... Just a lot of whining about her professors "not knowing me as a person". Whatever that means. b) For every letter like that from a Marjorie, I c

Re: Random Thoughts

2003-07-31 Thread José F . Alves
The lack of large human experience let these colleagues to share this limited opinion. I have been thinking that for limited minds only large human experience can afford more open mindsBut how can we do so? To take Vivian Hamilton and Herb Coleman and tell them that their human experienc

Re: Random Thoughts

2003-07-31 Thread Vivian Hamilton
Herb -- Bravo! Vivian Hamilton Portland Community College Louis, it seems to me that you are befuddled because you don't listen. Your colleagues here on this list serve are telling you that we do get it.  We do care about students.  We do care about teaching and we are trying to improve.  It doe

Re: Random Thoughts

2003-07-31 Thread Herb Coleman
Subject: Re: Random Thought: A Cause To Pause From: Louis_Schmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:25:28 -0400 (EDT) You know what befuddles me with the reaction of some on this list to this student's letter, the less than cordial and collegial halabaloo. It is that some are taking i

Sign language and the theatre: The Ultimate field trip

2003-07-31 Thread Michael Lavin
I recently had the opportunity to see The Big River which just opened on Broadway. It is a musical, a revision of Roger Miller's version of Mark Twain's classic. The entire play, songs included, is performed in American Sign Language, and also spoken and sung; where the actor playing a particular