Student Guide Corner

Happy Holidays!!!   I hope this semester has been wonderful, one where your students were inspired to think deeply and find joy in learning.  As I often tell my students:  the more you learn, the more the world opens up to you.  So, I hope you helped to open the world a bit wider for every one of your students.  Could any job be more rewarding than that? ** I needed an old picture last week for a project so I went searching through my college yearbooks.  They have remained on my book shelf, rarely opened, for nearly five decades.   Although I discovered hundreds of scenes of college life, my attention was captured by one tiny picture�about the size of a quarter.  Oddly enough, it was a photo of a sheet of paper�a paper that had 8 words handwritten on it.   The sheet looked like it might have been tacked to a wall.  I have no idea why this particular photo was included in a college yearbook but the words on that paper certa...

On Tuesday (July 15) at 11:00 a.m. I will be hosting a 35 minute webinar on �The Flipped Classroom.�    I am doing this program in connection with my Financial Accounting textbook (coauthored with C. J. Skender of UNC).    However, I hope to keep the textbook marketing down to a bare minimum because I really am interested in talking about the flipped classroom. I would love for you to join me if you can.    You can register in advance at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/295135194 ** Below is an email that I sent out this evening to all of my students for the upcoming fall semester.    I am trying to plant a seed in their minds about what I want from them in the fall.    I always believe that a semester goes better if the students know before they ever meet you what you want from them.    They don�t have to waste important classroom time trying to figure out what you value.    As you can see, I just tell them. **...