Monthly Archives: September 2017

Joyful Tidings #21: It’s Here, It’s Here, The New PDP Website Is Here!

Flex Planner, Joyful Tidings

Greetings Colleagues:

PDP has combined and moved its previous two websites into one simply spectacular Canvas site. You can now find us here: Cool, Shiny, New PDP Canvas Site.

But don’t worry, if you forget about this momentous change in the history of the college — nay, the history of higher education itself — you will find a redirect link at our old site: Old, Abandoned, and Shamelessly Discarded Site.

Please take the time to explore the new site; I think you will be able to complete a quick tour in no more than 10 to 15 hours.

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Joyful Tidings #20 Conversational Synergy

Classroom Teaching, Equity, Joyful Tidings, Musings

While we could debate what aspects of and approaches to teaching and learning we wish to discuss as a community of teachers and learners, I hope we can all agree that the conversations themselves are essential.

Talking to each other about our teaching and learning opens us to ideas, relationships, and inspiration we can miss as we focus on our day to day work at the college. (It took me three hours to write that sentence without using the phrase “hunkered down in our silos,” which just shows how educational jargon has corrupted my very soul!).

I want to share an experience I have had with this kind of conversational synergy over the past few days.

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