The Caffeinated Carbivore

Graduation day brings all kinds of new assignments, especially for recent ROTC grads. Many of them will be reporting for duty very shortly. Mom gets her wings from Air Force graduate *Copyright Stephanie Bushman This image captures the sacrifices of the American community. While the armed men and women are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, their families are sacrificing, too. God Bless. Remember, just because you don't support the war doesn't mean you can't support the troops.

It seems that our society likes black and white photography-good guy vs bad guy, right vs wrong... is there ever a bad guy with good intentions? With our dualistic media as a teacher, it doesn't surprise me that we've tried to categorize students into lefties and righties-writers and mathematicians. There are three big problems with this dichotomy: 1. Categorizing students as mathematicians may limit their writing ability, and vise versa (self-fulfilling prophecy. 2. According to gender stereotypes, masculine individuals perform better in math-this may limit the performance of gifted feminine individuals in the subject, and force them into writing, where they are in fact less talented 3. There are many more categories-more comes into play than just left and right (we should consider this in politics, too), and 4. Concentrating on your "Gifted" side limits your overall thought processing. First things first-as with many preconceptions, our students enter our classroom...

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...then a picture online is worth a thousand blog posts. Right? As bloggers and authors, we often see our world in words (and complex ones at that): that main has a long gait (not stride), the sky is the color of steel wool (not blue). After taking some time to focus my eyes within the dimensions of a lens instead of the four walls of a page, I've learned that a world of shapes, not words, lends itself to creative expression not achievable in words alone. As a public speaking teacher, I teach a unit on nonverbal communication (this includes anything from a friendly wave to a stomach rumble). As I've already noted, my Public Speaking class will interact online via our class blog. In addition to speaking in front of the class, I want to emphasize that the "public sphere" now extends to the internet, too (Facebook has 500 million users!). To show them that nonverbal communication occurs both in face-to-face communication (a frown) and online (pictures), I will also b...