Check out the How To Blog weblog. The person behind this blog is blogging about their experiences, uh, learning how to blog. This is a neat idea and I think will be very interesting to follow.
Premiere Watch
Premiere Watch is a new blog which will blog about the premières of new tv shows. We watch the premiers so you don't have to.
Stephan Chbosky
Word Riot has an interview up with Stephan Chbosky, author of the great book Perks Of Being A Wall Flower. A lot of the interview is spent discussing recent censorship and banning of his book by school districts. SC seems like a cool guy, he even wrote a letter to the one school board who eventually decided not to ban the book. Good for them.
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Slought Foundation Implementation Reading
Here is the audio of a recent Implementation reading.
Attendance
Recently, Little Professor blogged about attendance policies in the classroom. Her post got me thinking about my own experiences with attendance issues in the classroom. I think attendance is an important parting of the learning experience. How many absences a student may use should be up to an individual professor’s discretion based on how many they feel would not take away from a student’s learning experience. If this is one or five, that number is up to the professor. That said, no matter what the number is, as a student it is your job to suck it up and deal with whatever their policies are. Anyone who cannot deal with a stricter (let us argue two absences for an eleven-week semester is “strict,” and say, five or six is much more lenient) attendance policy shouldn’t take the course. I have never met a professor, especially here at Stockton, who is not willing to help and work with a student to deal with their issues and needs. I also have to agree with Little Professor’s sentiment that students who do come to class should not receive extra credit just for showing up when they are supposed to.
Let's just go around bleeding all over the malls, parks, schools, government buildings, and see how the mothafuckers like that!
Blog Sisters has a post up about this beautiful entry for the South Asian Sisters edition of The Vagina Monologues.
Douglas Coupland Interview
Nerve has a new interview up with Douglas Coupland about his new book Eleanor Rigby. It seems that he is also doing a sequel to Microserfs. Cool?!
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