Student Guide Corner

  As I have mentioned several times in the last few months, this blog is receiving an innovation award at the American Accounting Association annual meeting that will be held next month in Anaheim.   As part of that program, on Wednesday, August 7, I will make a 90 minute presentation (2:00 until 3:30 p.m.).     Because this blog is about improving teaching, I assume the presentation should be about improving teaching.    There will be hundreds of research presentations in Anaheim; however, at least this one will be a teaching presentation. I realize that 99 percent of the people (maybe 100 percent) who read this blog will not be able to attend my session in Anaheim.    So, today, I want to talk with you about how I plan to start that program and why.    You can pretend you are in Anaheim in August (at a hotel next to Disneyland).    If I want to have any real impact during my 90 minutes, I need to get the attendees mental...

I got the nicest email a few days ago from the president of the American Accounting Association:     � I am happy to give you some great news: you have been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Innovation in Accounting Education award for your blog, Joe Hoyle: Teaching -- Getting the Most From Your Students . The award was established to foster innovation and improvement in accounting education through �significant programmatic changes or a significant activity, concept, or set of educational materials.�� I was really thrilled.   As a result, I will make a 90 minute presentation on August 7 at the AAA annual meeting in Anaheim.    If you are going to be at that conference, I hope you will stop by.     And, I want to thank everyone who reads this blog for helping to spread the word.    We have now had 78,000 page views over the years and my guess is that most of those hits came from you guys telling other folks about the blog...