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My Ukulele Curriculum

I had my first #ukulele lesson with Aldrine Guerrero today. As a goal we wanted to develop a curriculum for my playing. I decided to take lessons as I learned a couple chords, like to make noise pretending I knew scales, and had annoyed everyone in my family pretending to know a few songs. Basically hit a wall in learning teachers can only break. You can pra

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Ten Tips for Online Teaching Online from LRA Coffee Hours #lra2020

Tip 1: Do intro videos and two check in videos twice a year Tips 2: Schedule individual sessions ask students to come with a question Tip 3: Rely on what you know about good teaching Tip 4: Use synchronous meeting Tip 5: Use breakout rooms Tip 6: Simple navigation improves learning Tip 7: Build in offline activities Tip 8: Make podcasts for students so they

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EDU106 Portfolio Module

Goal of the Module You will create a portfolio website that tracks your efforts to make yourself or the world a better place. There are a number of ideas you can choose from: Learn and teach a classic family recipe. Join an online movement Do a two week long quantified self project (diet,exercise, reading, digital detox) Making a mental health guide tracking

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Reflections on Rumi: Is there a Shared Voice in American Poetry

I am reading Rumi's poetry right now. I say reading for I can not truly hear the meaning. Unless of course I find the emptiness to not listen. Until then I do try to find audio versions of poems in Persian to miss meanings in Cadence of quatrains and tone of odes. Prosody of the voice carried by a 1,000 past tongues. Alas, I rely on Coleman Banks like everyo

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