My 4Cs Presentation (slideshare version)
My presentation was part of the “Collaborative Crosscurrents in First Year Composition” panel at CCCC 2009. We were scheduled at the same time as several other panels I know I would have liked to...
View ArticleOn the WSU Common Reading Kerfuffle
I am a literary studies person who thoroughly enjoys teaching composition [hiring committees: note that]. While I am thrilled to be teaching a literature course next semester, I am a little sad that I...
View Articleunedited thoughts on students knowing (or learning) how to code
I just wrote a fairly lengthy email response on the TECHRHET listserv that starts to get at the response I’ll eventually write to Kirschenbaum’s Chronicle piece from January about humanities students...
View ArticleKeep Inflexible Technophobes Out of the Online Classroom
When I read the Chronicle piece, “I’ll Never Do it Again“—about one professor’s experiences teaching online—I thought to myself, “Great! Don’t. More work for the rest of us.” I hope there’s a Chronicle...
View ArticleConference Abstract for Presentation on "Digital Natives"
The day abstracts were due for the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference (Nov 6-9, 2009 in San Francisco), I whipped up an abstract for the “teaching with technology” panel. I am...
View ArticleStudent Use of L1 in an ESL Classroom
On Twitter, @englishcomp (Jim Burke) posted a link to Ways of Motivating EFL/ ESL Students in the Classroom, which caught my attention because I was just thinking about my own students and their...
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Google Translate, and Translation Projects in the Classroom
In my post about multilingual students using L1 in the classroom, I briefly mentioned a translation project that students completed in one of my semester-long versions of English 403 (Professional and...
View ArticleAccessible Course Evaluations
Mark Sample, professor of Contemporary American Literature and New Media Studies in the English Department at George Mason University, is a smart fellow. I knew that even through the 140-character...
View ArticleIntro to Programming Bootcamp at THATCamp New England
I had the daunting task of doing a Bootcamp session at THATCamp New England in which I tried to “introduce programming” to an audience I did not know ahead of time. SO. MUCH. FUN. (seriously!) Here’s...
View Articletwitterfied discussion of pedagogy & stuff
Last night I asked a question on Twitter, had some discussions (yay, thanks!) and then promptly went to dinner with a friend. The discussion continued, then veered to something else, and I ended up...
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