March 3, 2022 Just Imagine…Battlefield Nursing Mary (Grant) Seacole was born in British Colonial Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a Scottish lieutenant and her mother ran a successful boarding house. Her mother also practiced traditional...
March 2, 2022 Think About…Strategies for Collaborative Classroom Discussions Previously I released a series of 11 messages on Course Design for Collaborative Discussions. Over the next 18 weeks, I will be re-sharing a series of messages on discussion strategy....
February 24, 2022 Just Imagine…Preventive Medicine for All Rebecca Crumpler was born in Delaware in 1831 and raised in Pennsylvania by her aunt who cared for the sick in their community. While her aunt was not trained as...
February 17, 2022 Just Imagine… a Hidden Hero as the Mother of Modern Medicine Henrietta Lacks was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1920. After her mother died, she went to live with her maternal grandfather in Clover, Virginia, where she grew up farming tobacco....
February 10, 2022 Just Imagine…Letting Voices Be Heard Born in 1931, James West grew up in Jim Crow Virginia. As a child he would take apart appliances to see how they worked, a typical activity for many future...
February 3, 2022 Just Imagine … Dry Cleaning and Civil Rights Thomas Jennings was born in 1791 to a free Black family in New York City. He grew up to be a highly acclaimed tailor and operated a very popular clothing...
January 27, 2022 Just Imagine…a New Breed of Innovation Luther Burbank, born in rural Massachusetts in 1849, grew up under the long shadow of the Great Famine in Ireland, a famine that killed a million people and led millions...
January 20, 2022 Just Imagine…Being Humane Henry Dunant grew up in a family known for its civically-minded humanitarian work in Geneva, Switzerland. His father worked to improve the lives of orphans and ex-prisoners. His mother worked...
January 13, 2022 Just Imagine…Innovations Better than the First Thomas Edison is widely known as the most prolific inventor in US history. His invention of the lightbulb is credited with lighting America. What is less well known is that...
January 6, 2022 Just Imagine…Innovating with Big Ideas When we think of innovations, we generally think of devices and their applications for our daily lives. Innovations can also be big ideas. Consider for example the following innovations: A...
December 16, 2021 Just Imagine…Genius and Discrimination Emmy Noether was born to a Jewish family in Erlangen, Germany, in 1882. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Erlangen. She passed exams in French...
December 8, 2021 Think About…11 Topics on Course Design for Collaborative Discussions I wrote a "Think About" series of messages that were designed for educators who want to engage students in more active learning using collaborative class discussions. These messages have been...
