Art History 1 (ART 114) Activated

Today is February 2nd and that means that 2nd chance classes, including ART 114, are now active. That being said, since the early activation of the course in January, there hasn’t been a lot of activity in the course today, and I suspect that the remaining 10 or so students will fall in one at […]

Academic Decay

Every semester many optimistic students sign up for courses, but how many actually stay in them, and of those, how many participate? Every semester when an instructor assigns weekly discussion board activities for online or hybrid courses, it surprises me how many people begin falling away from the course. In one of my psychology courses […]

Renewed Excitement for PSYC

I am not quite as worried about my psychology courses as I was before. I just finished my quiz in Theories of Personality on Freud and I got a perfect score. I am beginning to feel a little better about these courses. I believe my lack of performance in the courses may be related to […]

Digital Photo Assignments

When it comes to digital photography assignments lately I am finding myself in one of two categories, and no where in between. Those categories are having pretty much no clue fora subject for the assignment, or having an overabundance of inspiration. My current project is macro, so I am very comfortable already with doing it, […]

January 25, 2009 – Academic Outlook for the Week

This week I have a fair number of things going on academically. Digital Photography Studio – I have to get my second project done by Tuesday at 3PM. I have to do a motion blur, which should be easy, given that my instructor accused my first assignment of being a motion blur and not a […]

Psychology Course Difficulties

I am beginning to worry about the courses I am taking this semester. I am not doing horribly in Cognitive Psychology or Theories of Personality, but I am not doing as well as I would like. I feel like I am putting more effort into the courses than I usually would. These courses are also […]

New Blog Tool

I have pretty much decided that Drivel is a bit too trivial of a blog utility for how spoiled I have become from Windows Live Writer, so I am going to give BloGTK a try and see how it performs. It has some pretty cools features if they all work the way they are supposed […]

Distance Education

The point of Distance Education is to be able to take a course anywhere in the world, but I think I added a false assumption to this definition. I believe I added to it that there would always be something to do in a distance education course. Presently my courses are very quiet, there are […]

Academic Directions

As promised in my previous blog entry, I am going to comment on my academic life in this entry. First of all, I am a lifetime learning student. Degrees are not my primary means of organizing academics. I am not in it for the credit hours, I am in it for the experience of different […]

Challenge to SACS

Dear Southern Association of Colleges and Schools:      As you may be aware, you are the primary accrediting authority of all schools below the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi. A fact I do not know if you are aware of is all schools in your division teach common sets of courses, but all […]