Moonwalking Bear Advert! Awareness Test!
Friday, November 20, 2009 05:45 p.m.
This is being used in lecture to dicuss critical thinking and persuasion. Notice how you are asked to pay attention to the white elements, but miss what is in black and obvious.
APA Offers to Replace Error-Ridden Copies of Style Guide
Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:17 p.m.
The 6th edition of the APA style guide continues the APA's inability to get their act together. It is increasingly difficult to take APA seriously when the organization can not model the behavior they so desire and demand. I just love the last few remarks in this article: "One observer of the fray, Barbara Fister, academic librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, in Minnesota, thinks professors and students have gotten too tangled in these stylistic knots. "The time has come for faculty and librarians working with undergraduates to loosen up," she wrote in an October 18 post on ACRLog, a blog run by the Association of College & Research Libraries. Professors should "stop spending hours trying to correct student work using new style manuals as unfamiliar to them as to their students and go play with the baby or take a walk instead."
Was she joking? Not entirely. "I know APA has kind of undermined its authority by having many minor errors in the examples in their own manual, but it's actually kind of a justification of what I believe—that being correct [in the minutiae of style] is not that important, but that understanding the rhetorical reasons for bringing good sources into your argument is," she told me in an e-mail message. Students who visit the reference desk don't ask, "Do you think this source is going to persuade my readers, or is there something out there that would be more powerful?" Ms. Fister observed. "It's, 'Is this part of the Web site the sponsoring organization or the title, … and are these words supposed to be capitalized or not? Do I use a comma or a period here?'"
"WHO CARES?" Ms. Fister concluded. "Sorry. Didn't mean to shout."
The Shriver Report
Sunday, October 25, 2009 09:08 p.m.
The executive summary of The Shriver Report tells us, "This report describes how a woman’s nation changes everything about how we live and work today. Now for the first time in our nation’s history, women are half of all U.S. workers and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. This is a dramatic shift from just a generation ago (in 1967 women made up only one-third of all workers). It changes how women spend their days and has a ripple effect that reverberates throughout our nation. It fundamentally changes how we all work and live, not just women but also their families, their co-workers, their bosses, their faith institutions, and their communities.
Quite simply, women as half of all workers changes everything."
Student Speakers on YouTube
Thursday, October 15, 2009 05:43 p.m. Pat Rankin - Self-Introduction SpeechAdam Castaneda - Self-Introduction SpeechAshley Sydow - Self-IntroductionJason Kort - InformativePat Retzlaff - InformativePat Rankin - InformativeLea Beal - InformativeDiscovering Psychology: The Power of the Situation
Thursday, October 15, 2009 04:10 p.m.
In today's lecture courses The Power of the Situation was viewed. In the lecture material prior to the video, Muzafer Sherif's "autokinetic effect" experiments were dicussed. Currently, the study is used to interprete UFO sightings and related behavior. Michael D. Sofka discusses this in UFOs of October: The Autokinetic Effect and group dynamics in UFO observations. It was also mentioned in lecture that Chinese Sky Lanterns get reported as UFOs. See Last Week’s Dorset UFOs Credited To Chinese Lanterns for more.A Path to Downward Mobility: Today's youngest Americans are likely to be worse off than their parents.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 04:37 p.m.
Students in my courses that study socioeconomic status (SES) and social status may be familiar with my argument that upward mobility is largely a myth, and that the SES of the family into which you are born is the largest determining variable of your adult SES. In particular, over generations of men and their male descendants an SES rut is developed with a variance of about 15% up or down. This article is pretty clear that many Americans are on "the road to downward mobility."I've so been waiting for TS:3!
Fall Break - October 19 & 20
Friday, October 9, 2009 04:43 p.m.
October 19 & 20 is Fall Break at Central Community College. Regular classes are not in session on campus and instructors are not in their offices to respond to e-mail and phone calls. Please expect delays in the evaluation and return of assignment submissions immediately before and after Fall Break. Please note that Fall Break represents the mid-point of the semester: The semester is half finished.Common Business APA Citation Styles
Monday, October 5, 2009 11:28 p.m.
Students using and citing business publications may find the examples on this page beneficial.Class Matters: An Overview of Socio-Economic Status in America
Friday, October 2, 2009 11:04 a.m.
"A team of reporters spent more than a year exploring ways that class - defined as a combination of income, education, wealth and occupation - influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity."Why bananas are a parable for our times
Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:16 a.m.
"It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible" and it's why you'll someday not be able to eat your favorite breakfast food - at least in an unmodified form free of genetic engineering. Can This Fruit Be Saved? discusses efforts to create some type of banana with the appeal of the Cavendish banana - a banana considered inferior to the Gros Michel or "Big Mike" banana that was popular in the first half of the 20th century. I'd really like to see a glow-in-the-dark banana, like has been done with this tobacco plant by adding in firefly genes.Citing Government Documents
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:27 a.m.
Calvin T. Ryan Library at the University of Nebraska - Kearney provides guidelines for citing government documents in print and electronic formats. Of particular benefit to Nebraskans, a section on "Nebraska State Documents" is provided that covers both print and electronic publications.The Basics of APA Style
Monday, September 14, 2009 11:22 a.m.
In support of the 6th Edition of the APA Style Manual, "This tutorial is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of APA Style. It shows users how to structure and format their work, recommends ways to reduce bias in language, identifies how to avoid charges of plagiarism, shows how to cite references in text, and provides selected reference examples."Frequently Asked Questions About APA Style
Monday, September 14, 2009 11:15 a.m.
Have a question about APA style? See if it is answer in the APA FAQ! One might also be interested in the APA Style Blog that examines the way that unusual or new citation situations are being handled. The Myth of the Flat Earth
Thursday, September 10, 2009 03:31 p.m.
Chronocentrism is the belief that people in the present are superior to people in the past. As a form of ethnocentrism, the Flat Earth Myth is one such chronocentric belief that many people in the present believe about the past - that until relatively recently people believed the earth was flat because they were too stupid or ignorant to figure out otherwise. They will then go on to say that it took sailing around the world to prove it. Jeffrey Burton Russell highlights his arguments in this article. Burton's book Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians discusses the topic in-depth.
