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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Winner, International Book Awards in Education/Academic category (June 2024)
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Friday, May 31, 2024
Ideal High School Graduation Gift Book - 99 Motivators for College Success
If you're looking for a gift idea for a recent graduate, this book has been a popular item over the years.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Amazon now displays AI-generated text of customer reviews
For Innovative College Teaching:
Customers say
Customers find the book full of practical, accessible ideas and helpful interviews with teachers. They also describe the author as funny, engaging, and informative.
Customers find the book full of practical and accessible ideas that can be put to work. They also appreciate the interviews with teachers and gems. Customers say the book makes teaching more fun and effective.
"...of keen experience offered here make teaching both more fun and more effective, for both the student and the instructor...." Read more
"...with “master teachers” are interesting and more engaging and useful than anticipated...." Read more
"...Though the book provides a salad of advice rather than a system, it has many gems. I plan to use some of the ideas in my class." Read more
"...The Appendix has useful anecdotes, pedagogy information, and sample classroom materials...." Read more
Customers find the story engaging and informative.
"...The interviews with “master teachers” are interesting and more engaging and useful than anticipated...." Read more
"...than a teacher Perry may have more to offer as a writer who is funny, engaging, and informative. Or maybe the two are related. Who knows?" Read more
"A great way to reinject enthusiasm and fun into courses..." Read more
Monday, May 20, 2024
Motivational Graduation Speech for High School and College Graduates
Your Graduation Inspires Me
When I participate in graduation ceremonies, I often imagine delivering my own speech to the graduates, as if I were the commencement speaker:
Good morning chancellor, president, deans, faculty members, staff, students, friends, and family members. And to the graduates:
Every one of you is special.
Every one of you is a productive member of society.
Every one of you is what inspires ME - because…
Every one of you has a story to tell.
I just wish I had the time to hear every one of them, and to be there as your career paths unfold.
You have already accomplished a huge milestone on that journey. The biggest step though was just showing up. That’s it. The secret most people don’t get until it’s too late. Just showing up as young freshmen was a threshold event. Trying something which may be hard for the first time. Experiencing new things, even if it’s unknown whether the objective is attainable.
To me, the greatest barriers to success, however you define that, are a fear of the unknown, a fear of change, and a fear of failure. But you need a game plan, and hopefully you can lean a little on what you learned in school to figure out that route. No matter what you do in life, you always will have your education.
I hope you made some lifelong friends here. Frankly, I learned more about life from my peers than from my professors. And I hope you got more than knowledge from your profs because you can get that from a book. I’m hoping you gained insight on whatever subject, and then stamped your own original perspective on how to resolve issues and solve problems.
Many times the things you do won’t work. And you will fail at some things you try. That’s just a fact of life. Abraham Lincoln once said: “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
And you will make mistakes. A lot of them! Both in your careers and your lives. That’s just another fact of life. But that’s okay. The trick is figuring out how to deal with setbacks. Your family and friends will always be there for you. And your education will continually serve as a foundation to get you back on track.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “We are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of our own minds.” Graduates, each of you must unlock your mind and blaze a path built on reason and purpose. Life is too short to spend it bouncing around like a random and aimless ball in a game of Pong.® And whether you are 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 years young, it is never too late to test the boundaries of your dreams.
Finally, I want all of you gathered in front of me to please lose the title of “former” student, because you will be my students for many years to come. And I expect in return that I can become your student, as I learn about your professional successes, trials, and tribulations.
Every one of you is special.
Every one of you is a productive member of society.
Every one of you is what inspires me – because...
Every one of you has a story to tell.
What will your next journey be?
Excerpt from 99 Motivators for College Success
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Another Kind Review of Innovative College Teaching
Friday, May 3, 2024
Another Kind Amazon Review of Innovative College Teaching Book
Although
aimed at educators looking for “outside-of-the-box ideas” teaching
college students, parents who want to inspire their children to enjoy
higher education can benefit from it as well. As Perry Binder stated
“Most of the books on college teaching are loaded with advice that tells
you how to teach (Be passionate; Be flexible; Be yourself!), rather
than show you by example how to teach.”
This book is presented in
two parts: innovative teaching techniques and innovative master
teachers. First, Binder (a licensed attorney who teaches law and
business ethics to college students) discussed his teaching philosophy,
online classes, artificial intelligence, exam prep, student engagement,
and his college professor journey. Next he interviewed thirteen
professors in the Education, Entrepreneurship, Law, Science, Technical
Education, and Business departments.
The Appendix has useful
anecdotes, pedagogy information, and sample classroom materials. The
“Using AI to Develop Classroom Modules” highlights how the author uses
his teaching method on emerging technologies.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Finishing My 24th Year at GSU
As students requested, I changed my Twitter profile pic to our mascot Pounce and me for the last week of class in Legal & Ethical Environment of Business.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Student Presentations on AI
Wrapping up the semester in Internet Law with presentations on how AI is changing various professions for the better and worse.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
A Kind International Review: Innovative College Teaching