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In yesterday’s NYTimes, Matt Richtel has an article entitled “Blogs vs Term Papers,” in which he sketches a debate about college writing. Cathy Davidson responds brilliantly, talking at length about her own experience with teaching methods that stray from the traditional academic writing still taught in many places. Even Richtel’s piece points out the false . . . → Read More: Blogs in class What can we expect from students and what can they expect from us? This is a broad question that I would like to narrow down to technology. What they (can) expect. When I started teaching at the college level, email was still somewhat new, and many people had mobile phones, but texting was not an . . . → Read More: Expectations of Technology Access in Education In the last few weeks, I have given a few lectures on the Hays Code to film classes, and in one class we watched This Film Is Not Yet Rated, a film revealing the secrecy and inconsistencies of the MPAA rating system. After reading the “General Principles” of the Hays Code, I ask students what they . . . → Read More: Teaching Film Censorship Everyone is talking about Brian Croxall’s provocative MLA paper right now, so I might as well jump on the bandwagon. Go read the paper, if you haven’t already, but here’s a quick summary: Brian couldn’t go to MLA because he had no job interviews there and couldn’t afford the cost of attending, so he had . . . → Read More: Oh, the Humanities! A lot of my readers have either just begun teaching or will this week, so I thought I would post a few education-related links that have caught my attention recently. I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch, so feel free to post more links in the comments. IHE has run a few articles in the last . . . → Read More: Teaching links According to WSJ a few days ago, Youtube has added a section dedicated to education. It has a lot of lectures organized by “most viewed” or by university. I wonder how the emergence of more sites like these, as well as the rapid growth of online learning environments and services, will affect more traditional, f2f, . . . → Read More: Youtube Edu: Education in networked world IHE has a post on the “ten commandments of lecturing”, which is the type of thing I often find trite and repetitive, but for some reason I found this one a little refreshing and thought-provoking. The two I think I am best at are: VI. Thou Shalt Be Enthusiastic. My evaluations almost always . . . → Read More: Teaching reflections I promised I would give you my take on politics in the classroom, but it looks like I already did, a year ago. I am having students analyze various types of media to see if they can detect bias, and we are talking about academic bias as well. I get the sense that most students . . . → Read More: Teaching and politics, again I had my class read “Host” by DFW, which led to some interesting discussion about form and content, as well as the nature of conservative talk radio and coprorate radio as well. Neither my students nor I knew anything about John Ziegler, the subject of the article, until reading the essay, and some questions came . . . → Read More: John Ziegler, DFW, and Academic Bias I am having my students maintain blogs this semester as part of Intermediate Composition (ENG3010). I have given them little direction on this except that they should post once a week on whatever we’re reading or doing (Presidential Nomination Speeches, Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener, and DFW’s “Host” so far), and that they should keep in . . . → Read More: Class blogs |
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