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Better Grading for Better Learning
In this post, I share some suggestions and practices for grading that I have found to be helpful in online teaching. In the first section, I share a bit of my grading philosophy and how I communicate with students. Then I talk about the value of a clear grading philosophy and how to set yourself and…
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Dwelling Among Us
Written as a brief reflection for the final 2015 issue of Oklahoma Wesleyan’s Connect:ED faculty newsletter. —- As I write this, I am sitting in my daughter’s room at St. Francis Children’s Hospital here in Tulsa. She was admitted yesterday with a severe eye infection requiring several days of antibiotics. For the fifth time in…
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Feeding Sheep: The Final Benediction, pt.4
Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 To the Leader “Do you love me? Feed my sheep,” asks Jesus of the one who would be his leader. The story closes with this familiar litany. Peter is still God’s man of the hour, still the chosen leader of the band. For Peter, for all the disciples, for all of…
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The Great Piano Project, pt. 4
What I learned taking an antique upright piano apart to clean and restore the inside… Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Step 3: Cleaning Lower Case This post is not nearly as interesting as the others, but it is the next step in my project, so for the sake of chronology and archiving, here it…
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Return of the King: The Final Benediction, pt. 3
Previous Parts: 1 | 2 “In the breaking of bread, fellowship is restored and the one that has denied, rejected, and fled is invited once again into the participation of the divine life.” The Meal There they are, Peter and these weary, defeated disciples. Maybe in their minds, former disciples. “Come and have breakfast,” Jesus says. In these…
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Simple Model for Content Areas of Good Learning (infographic)
A new idea I am working on. This is a tool for sharing with students in online courses to help better integrate scholarly thought, personal experience, and biblical truth & Christian wisdom into discussion forums and academic writing. I am wanting to help students come at this kind of classroom work in three ways: the academic/theoretical side (what…
