tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post8663909522774622620..comments2023-09-20T01:37:42.849-07:00Comments on jonathan's edutalk: the notion of exceptionality: pros and consjonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12428776624768329928noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post-32935636738853887612011-02-19T03:07:00.548-08:002011-02-19T03:07:00.548-08:00hi, new to the site, thanks.hi, new to the site, thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post-80415401489222890762010-06-04T21:06:19.079-07:002010-06-04T21:06:19.079-07:00Hi
Very nice and intrestingss story.Hi <br />Very nice and intrestingss story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post-52947999582444153532008-02-10T14:49:00.000-08:002008-02-10T14:49:00.000-08:00jonathan said... Here's a response to this post...jonathan said...<BR/><BR/> Here's a response to this post from my friend Gerald Graff of San Francisco State University:<BR/><BR/> "Great post, Jonathan. Portrayals of 'exceptional teachers' also add to the cultural expectation that individual teachers should balance societal inequities on their own backs. Those teachers who "merely" want to be good teachers but also have their own lives are left feeling inadequate." (sent 2/9/08 at 8:33 AM)<BR/><BR/> I had not thought of how essential the notion of teachers' collective knowledge is as a counterweight to that feeling of having to right the injustices of the world by extraordinary individual efforts in the classroom. And I agree with Gerald that the necessity of lonely individual effort is the essential message conveyed by such films as Stand And Deliver, Dangerous Minds and Freedom Writers.jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428776624768329928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post-13161091440354978102008-02-09T16:37:00.000-08:002008-02-09T16:37:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428776624768329928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post-9356768634106749182007-08-31T17:06:00.000-07:002007-08-31T17:06:00.000-07:00Hi Tia and David,Thanks so much for the info above...Hi Tia and David,<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for the info above on creating links. I've added Firefox to my collection of browsers and this seems to have simplified the process of creating links quite a bit. My problem was that my netscape browser did not bring up the "links" icon, so I was trying unsuccessfullly to use the linking "code"--a very cumbersome process.<BR/><BR/>Do stop by FO 127 to tell me how you're doing this fall. It'll provide a quickening of my heart, which my cardiologist tells me will be a very good thing indeed.<BR/><BR/>And regarding which, here's what I recently wrote to recent SJSU grad Tommie Goltzer,now teaching at YB:<BR/><BR/>Hi Tommie,<BR/><BR/>Well something did happen to me this summer, but it turned out to be less serious than was first supposed.<BR/><BR/>What happened was that while I was participating in a rock climbing "adventures ashore" in Ketchikan, Alaska in late July as part of an Inland Waterway cruise from Anchorage to Vancouver I had a return of the heart symptoms that led to my heart attack in January of 2004.<BR/><BR/>So the medical team aboard the cruise ship took a look at me, then the physicians at Vancouver General, and finally the cardiology dept at St Paul's Hosp in Vancouver (the cardiology center for British Columbia). Bottom line was that what was causing the "unstable angina" was an 80% blockage in the "second lateral" off my main artery--the left anterior descending, or LAD artery. It's not as serious as it sounds, since this particular lateral artery services a fairly minor area of the heart, but it would still be better to have it functioning at fuller capacity, so I'm presently seeing if some new medications I'm taking will reduce the partial blockage of this "lateral" artery.<BR/><BR/>The rather surprising good news I learned from the series of very high tech photos that the St John's team took of my heart during my stay is that it is functioning as if I'd not had a heart attack at all. That is, 55% of the blood in my left ventricle gets squeezed out with each major "beat" of my heart, which is what happens with a normal heart. And this despite the fact that the muscle tissue around my left ventricle is no longer living. So my advice to friends is not to state this "fact" too loudly, since the muscle in this area of my heart has not, after 2 1/2 years, gotten the message! Actually what's happened is that the still living 4/5ths of my heart has learned to compensate for the 1/5th that's no longer pulling it's weight--the sort of thing that often happens in classes where students are working in groups, as you know well.<BR/><BR/>So that's way more than you need to know, of course, but I felt you deserved some explanation for my long silence.<BR/><BR/>My very best,<BR/><BR/>Jonathan Lovelljonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428776624768329928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post-45745308857624209822007-08-31T16:29:00.000-07:002007-08-31T16:29:00.000-07:00Hi ProLo,David & I were talking about you after cl...Hi ProLo,<BR/><BR/>David & I were talking about you after class last Thursday - we think you're a rad teacher, & we hope you're really doing better with your heart issues.<BR/><BR/>How to Create Links:<BR/>- Whenever you write a new post, you write under a tab called "Compose".<BR/>- Click on the tab right next to it called "Edit Html".<BR/>- Highlight the text that you want to create into a link, click on the globe/chainlink icon, & then type in the web address.<BR/>- Go back to "Compose" & resume the rest of your post!<BR/><BR/>(I hope that helps!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30860520.post-28942167779484325972007-03-24T15:36:00.000-07:002007-03-24T15:36:00.000-07:00I seem to be having trouble adding links to my pos...I seem to be having trouble adding links to my posts. Here are the links I was trying to add to the entry above;<BR/><BR/>For "Directive," see <BR/><BR/>hjem.get2net.dk/abra-ken/Frost1.htm<BR/><BR/>For comments on the Parable of the Sower and its interpreation, see<BR/><BR/>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sower<BR/><BR/>For the website for the movie "Freedom Writers," see<BR/><BR/>www.freedomwriters.com/<BR/><BR/>I'll figure out how to create links eventually.<BR/><BR/>Sighjonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428776624768329928noreply@blogger.com