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19 Nov, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Today is #WorldToiletDay #WorldToiletDay2020

More than a billion (that's 1,000,000,000) people defecate in the open because they lack the dignity of a toilet.

un.org/en/observances…

As usual, I did NOT have time to write a blog post about it, but I did in previous years.
World Toilet Day and the global politics of sanitation raulpacheco.org/2015/11/world-…

#WorldToiletDay #WorldToiletDay2020
World Toilet Day 2013: Say #ThankYouToilet and #CelebrateTheToilet raulpacheco.org/2013/11/world-…

#WorldToiletDay #WorldToiletDay2020
On the politics of toilet access and the global sanitation crisis #WorldToiletDay raulpacheco.org/2014/11/on-the…
World Toilet Day (Nov 19) and World Toilet Summit (Nov 22-24) raulpacheco.org/2011/11/world-…

#WorldToiletDay #WorldToiletDay2020

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21 Nov
I read the original thread and it makes sense. After having taught 4 courses this fall and 1 this past summer, I have some thoughts.

First, I've blogged a bit of my experience here: raulpacheco.org/2020/10/recons… and here raulpacheco.org/2020/10/teachi…
There's one element that isn't discussed here: the heterogeneity in teaching styles, technological expertise and competency, and pedagogical training.

For people who do weekly seminars, it would appear as though they could just transport the concept across, just online.
So, I (with some level of pedagogical training, tech literacy and a teaching style and courses that suit more offline work that does not involve any contact with computers, or reduces online work), could potentially actually manage to reduce students' workload.

Not everyone.
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20 Nov
El día de hoy di una clase en el curso conjunto de @CPliscoff de @EGGP_UCHILE y @psanabria de @GobiernoUAndes a la cual invité a mis estudiantes de @FlacsoMx (y colegas y estudiantes de otras universidades a quienes superviso).

Hablé del saneamiento y suministro de servicios.
Una pregunta que me hicieron en la clase me dejó un poco preocupado porque he oído a estudiantes de políticas y administración pública que dicen “el gobierno no PUEDE ofrecer un servicio público como la provisión de baños públicos universal”.

Casi me da el soponcio
El gobierno tiene entre sus muchas funciones el proveer servicios públicos a la sociedad. Decir que “el gobierno no PUEDE ofrecer servicios” lo exime, incorrecta e indebidamente, de su responsabilidad.
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18 Nov
Good morning, #AcWriMo people.

I am going to tweet a series of motivating quotes for you to keep going until the end of the month.

1. “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
― Lisa See
2. “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.

That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler

#AcWriMo
3. “You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
― Jodi Picoult
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11 Nov
#AcWri Thread:

My students ALWAYS ask me the question:

"How do I go from having the Detailed Outline to actually writing a Memorandum (or a series of Memos) that I can then assemble into the full draft of the paper?"

Well, everyone: Grab a chair because HERE IT GOES.
As you all know I’m finishing a chapter on ethnography in comparative environmental politics.

Comparative is what I do and who I am.

This doesn’t mean that it’s any easier to write. So I always go back to basics.

1) Initial Outline. Basic layout of ideas, headings/thoughts.
2) Break down each chapter heading/main idea into ideas/Topic Sentences/Triggering Questions.

As you can see here, I grabbed the “ethnography in CEP” and started writing Triggering Questions that help trigger my thinking.

I start adding more detail to the heading outline.
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19 Oct
Toulmin on argument: An interpretation and application buff.ly/34cg5Lk

I want to thank Professor @jenmercieca for suggesting this paper to help me teach the Stephen Toulmin model of argumentation. I also assigned the book, which is not easy to digest.
A lot of people think that teaching research methods does NOT include helping students learn how to write properly.

I do teach:
- proper citation practices
- writing analytically instead of descriptively
- engaging discursively with others' writing
- argumentation
On proper citation practices, writing analytically and engaging discursively, I use Graf and Birkenstein:

They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (my reading notes) raulpacheco.org/2017/05/they-s…
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18 Oct
It's Sunday and my Mom is watching TV and I've already made breakfast, made my bed and it's 12:36pm and it's a gloriously sunny afternoon in Aguascalientes'n, Mexico.

SO HERE IS A THREAD ON WRITING.

Buckle up, everyone.
My biggest challenge is NOT the lack of ideas. NOT the lack of motivation.

It's The Dreaded Blank Page. raulpacheco.org/2019/08/dealin…

Do I face The Dreaded Blank Page on a regular basis?

YES. Yes, I do.

Because I write by memorandums. raulpacheco.org/2020/04/writin…
Because I love writing detailed outlines for the papers I write, I often have to break down each heading or even sub-heading into a separate memorandum raulpacheco.org/2018/03/two-me…

HOW DO I TACKLE THIS CHALLENGE?
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