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After decades of learning and absorbing, I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time and was offered an instructor position with a career college. Some careful thought of how this will affect my other activities and I decided to go for it. No regrets.
The MaxKnowedge program helps me transition from the corporate/military training style into the college student level and fine tune my ability to reach the student. Everything is a work in progress. I find that I need to connect with the students no matter what.
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Great course with plenty of links to relavant resources. I recommend all instructors work this course into your CE.
The class ages are getting younger all the time, "surprise". We need more tools like these to keep the students awake and involved.
Completed the course and I learned a few things about the colors, music, and aroma. I plan to use these ideas in the next semester to enhance the pass rate of the course(s). With retention come knolwedge.
I'm teaching an Intro to Computers class to 20 something year old students. This is a challenge to keep their attention so I bring in show and tell items. One day I brought in some vacuum tubes that were date stamped 1945 and were the size of a coke bottle. These vacuum tubes were similar to the ones used in the first computers built in the early 1940's. One day I brought in a TV picture tube that is about 5 inches in diameter. This is identical to the the first picture tubes developed in the 1940's. I was trying to… >>>
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