Welcome to my blog. I am Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Here are 100 things about me.
From Freshcomp http://www.freshcomp.net/archives/619#more-619 THREE NAMES YOU GO BY 1. Liz 2. Elizabeth 3. Magoo (after Mr. Magoo, the little cartoon guy who was blind and accidentally drove his car under trucks on a regular basis. My dad has called
pbwiki is now giving out free support materials for people doing presentations on wikis. Excellent timing--I'll be at a technology in education conference in a couple weeks and will certainly be mentioning wikis. Pretty smart of the pbwiki people
This is something everyone should be concerned about. Interesting that the Bush administration thinks corporations can be trusted to regulate themselves, but not institutions of higher education. How can a community college--a college with an open ad
Inside Higher Ed.'s article on "The Overflowing Composition Classroom" is a solid summary of a session I attended at 4Cs on community college faculty workload. The issue of community college faculty workload is one that, as you might im
I’m halfway through day 2 of 4Cs. I’ve been to a couple disappointing presentations, but the majority of the presentations I’ve gone to have been excellent. I’ll blog about specific sessions when I have a chance. A couple obse
I’ve been watching the NYC weather forecasts for March 21-24 for the past week, checking each day what the forecast for those days is and trying to figure out how to pack accordingly, but the weather out there has been so crazy that I’m s
10 Weird Things About Me (seen at New Kid): I am a slow eater. I am always the last person in a group to finish eating. Always. Even when I’m not talking at all. I completely lost my taste for spicy food after I got pregnant and have never rega
We have a home equity loan. Our last payment was due on Feb. 28 and I sent a check on Feb. 19. When I was preparing our taxes last weekend, I realized I had never received the form from the lender that says how much interest we paid in 2006. I went t
Lily started reading on her own on Saturday! She’s been playing with letter sounds for months now and I knew she’s be reading soon, but still, it took my breath away on Saturday morning wh
I used to bust my ass to get graded papers back to students by the next class period. When I first started teaching, I taught MWF classes, so if students turned in papers on a Wednesday, they got them
I’ve just about finished commenting on two class’s worth of portfolios using audio comments. I recorded the comments using my ipod and a micromemo microphone.
The only serious obstacle I’ve encountered is actually getting t