Death is coming for me. I feel its presence. Every second of everyday, it creeps closer. On days when I feel the ominous impact of some evil spinning on it’s own axis or the pull of shame for some offense I’ve done, or on those when my medicine quits working…
The Impact Crater that I Almost Missed
The Encyclopedia of Alabama simply said: as if everyone had always known they had been driving on remnants of an impact crater. Bald Knob in Cinematic Scenes It is true. If you happen to be in the area of Wetumpka, you can see Bald Knob without too much trouble. You…
Intersections of Contrary Things
Literary Beginnings As far as I can remember, Don Quixote, though at the top of the Well Educated Mind List, was not in the wooden-floored, white-shelved municipal library my mother took me to as a child. Nancy Drew was, so I read her series, my Bible, and as many fairy…
Two Thieves, a Middleman, and Some People at the Waffle Café
TWO THIEVES, A MIDDLEMAN, AND SOME PEOPLE AT THE WAFFLE CAFÉ ________________________________________________________________ A Play in Two Acts by a blogger whose blog got a little out of hand Copyright © 2016 …
Teaching Procedures?
StudyGuide Lines – Instructional Design Tips for Christian Teachers and Writers Procedure: “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer…
Learning Concepts
StudyGuide Lines – Instructional Design Tips for Christian Teachers and Writers Concept Learning Concepts are categories that you use to sort and store packages of information (objects). Learning theorists believe concepts are formed when a group of essential characteristics (attributes) are grouped together and labeled so that members (examples) of…
Some things I learned from my dad because I was not in Children’s Church
Two things are on my mind today. Number 1: My dad’s 79th birthday: Happy birthday Daddy! Number 2: Church nurseries and “Children’s Church.” Below are some things I learned as a child at church from my dad because I was not in nursery or Children’s Church. 1. I learned to…
Motivational Design: Confidence
StudyGuide Lines – instructional design tips for Christian teachers and writers. Confidence is a component of the ARCS Model for Motivational Design comes from the work of John Keller, a long-time professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. It is the model I most often use to incorporate motivational…
Is being practical, practical?
Compromise is practical. It’s the nice thing to do we’re taught. So we do it, and it’s usually a good thing in a way. We don’t get all of what we want, but we at least get something. Sometimes it works out that we get a smaller portion of exactly…
Attitude Change-The Affective Domain: Part 3
StudyGuide Lines – instructional design tips for Christian teachers and writers. In Attitude Change – The Affective Domain: Part 1 and Part 2 I discussed two important components of instruction essential to attitude change: 1st. Knowing How to do the target behavior (the cognitive piece). 2nd. Participation in the target behavior (the behavioral piece). This blog focuses…