RE: Teaching at Home (was re: [tips] Teaching Abroad

2015-11-20 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:13:24 -0800, Jim Clark wrote: Hi Howdy -Original Message- [snip] JC: Here I have to disagree being very familiar with modern building techniques in Greece (and perhaps same holds in India?). Cement columns are filled in with bricks that are directly plastered

Re: Teaching at Home (was re: [tips] Teaching Abroad

2015-11-20 Thread Carol DeVolder
Mike, having helped construct a classroom in southern India, I can tell you that drywall was never a consideration. The building was bricks that were made down the road. In the cities, the buildings were made from concrete with steel support beams. Again, no drywall on the inside. Thus, tacks don't

RE: Teaching at Home (was re: [tips] Teaching Abroad

2015-11-20 Thread Jim Clark
Hi -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] (1) Regarding robins: Whenever I cover Eleanor Rosch's work on the structure of categories, I emphasize that the prototype is the most representative example of a category or the modal instance of the category (i.e., the ins

Teaching at Home (was re: [tips] Teaching Abroad

2015-11-20 Thread Mike Palij
A few points: (1) Regarding robins: Whenever I cover Eleanor Rosch's work on the structure of categories, I emphasize that the prototype is the most representative example of a category or the modal instance of the category (i.e., the instance that one has experienced most often) and THAT depend