Comments on: Teacher, Teacher

By: iris

iris — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:49:49 +0000

A history professor of mine once suggested “generative” instead.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:59:47 +0000

This might have the ancillary benefit of taking “webinar” down with it. I’d like to see a whole French Revolutionary calendar of new academic terms:
germinal, prairial, messidor, etc. “Colloquia/ums,” kind of make me think of getting mugged in a supper club coat room. Surely there’s something better out there for such a course form. The war for the store in higher ed. will surely have a nomenclatural front. The Electronic Delivery of Educational Services Association [TM] has launched the term “podium” classes as a kind of sneering dismissive for the practice whereby somebody else is actually in the same room and within sight of the active learners; a neologism I could kind of do without.

By: koshembos

koshembos — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:09:38 +0000

“Can I draw it?” No, explain in words. “Just a small drawing” NO! Sometime they do call.

By: Liz2

Liz2 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:20:01 +0000

Congratulations! I try to beat that one out of my students too, although I usually spend more time on getting tribe out of their vocabulary.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:24:57 +0000

I usually suggest “fertile,” which is somewhat gender-neutral, and also, I think, a better model for the way knowledge is created/transmitted. An idea or event doesn’t contain within itself the seeds of later ones, it provides an environment (ground) in which later ones can grow.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:19:22 +0000

Suggest germinal or ovular as (much less sticky) substitutes.

By: kimbrulee

kimbrulee — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:01:04 +0000

Awesome! Any tips for getting my classmates in a Women’s Studies grad course on methods to stop using that word? I die a bit inside every time I hear it.

By: truffula

truffula — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:37:12 +0000

Hey! I got an advertisement for pre-paid cremation with the video.