CCT News

26 June 2010

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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor

Student Matters

Registration still open for 3-week summer session courses - register by July 1 to avoid a late fee.
See files/summer10.html for descriptions.

CRCRTH 619: Biomedical Ethics, ONLINE, July 19-Aug 5, Class #1939
CRCRTH 601: Critical Thinking, Face-to-Face, M-Th 1-4pm, July 19-Aug 5, Class #1988
CRCRTH 618: Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change, Face-to-Face, Fr, Sa July 16-31, 9am-4.15pm, Class #1052

Fall courses, see files/fall10.html, starting 7 Sep for face2face classes; 13 Sep for online.

CCT Community

Congratulations to additional May graduates:
M.A: Scott Goddess
Certificate: Lori Casamento, Emilia Sabatowska

CCT Events

Alum and CCT associates Notes

Ben Schwendener reports:
Among my many part-time teaching positions are directing ensembles and running a few courses at the Rivers School and Conservatory in Weston, MA - Creative Music (Jazz) Ensembles, Composition and Music production. A premier of a piece I was commissioned to write for their annual Seminar on Music for the Young, which is titled "Elodi in a Thunderstorm" and is for 6 musicians (students), electronic tape and dancers was performed in April. Please also see my website:http://www.benschwendener.com

Events

Opportunities

Resources

"Cosma" on Second Life, developed by former UMB lecturer Mary Hopper, "founded upon the belief that when knowledge is intuitively organized, and then it is presented in a very motivating and visual format, it can be mastered easily and quickly by everyone," web based interface: http://cosma.wikispaces.com

Food for Thought

Why the USA needs to create 18 million more jobs by the end of 2012, and how:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/7a6ff9eb4c/publication/407/

A model of admission of error: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EmEiFgDf5I

World Cop soccer and South Africa: http://www.redpepper.org.uk/South-Africa-s-own-goal

Visualize the BP oil spill if it happened where you live: http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard (in the case of the hound of the Baskervilles) is an examplar of critical thinking, in the sense of scrutinizing assumptions, reasoning, and evidence.