Why do my sinuses crackle when I sing? [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 4 answers

Can you recommend some beautiful / well designed non-fiction books? Topic is (mostly) irrelevant. [more inside]
posted on Dec 31, 2007 - 32 answers

On what basis is it that introductory courses stress avoiding a centered composition? [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - 14 answers

When I read the biographies of artists I admire, they always seem to start with lines like "began playing the piano at 5", "got first drumkit at 7", and so forth. Every great musician I've known personally got started at a very young age, usually before age 12. Have there been any successful (defined here as having produced music enjoyed by a significant number of people) who came to music relatively late in life? Past 18? 30? 40?
posted on Apr 22, 2007 - 29 answers

I teach graduate writing and research. I'm pretty confident with the way I teach the spirit of citation (it's what we have in the humanities instead of the scientific method), but what draconian pedagogy can I use to soul-crushingly impose format dread on my unruly grad students? [more inside]
posted on Oct 31, 2006 - 21 answers

Where should I go to college? (Electrical/Computer Engineering and Mathematics) [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2005 - 33 answers

TeacherFilter: I'm looking for a NON-fiction text for my tenth-grade students. [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2005 - 67 answers

How should I go about learning music theory? [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2005 - 15 answers

The math threads got me thinking; maybe someone can help my students? [+]
posted on Jan 18, 2005 - 44 answers

How do I make media education for high schoolers interesting? [mi]
posted on Nov 18, 2004 - 12 answers

Is there an online community or web site that mentors new programmers? One in which the student is guided through the different phases of development of a small, but not insignificant program. If one doesn't exist, would it be a worthwhile endeavor to create a mentor community?
posted on Apr 29, 2004 - 5 answers

Teaching question: how do I help a student whose mind wanders?
posted on Jan 23, 2004 - 34 answers

A K-12 school I am involved in wants to be able to publish digital portfolios of student work on the web. As to additional functionality (i.e. Commenting on work, Blogging) I'm open to proposals. Since the budget doesn't allow us to pay someone to hack apache and write code we're looking for an out of the box solution. I believe that Userland's Manila would let me do this at least in part - are there any other solutions I can be looking at?
posted on Dec 9, 2003 - 5 answers