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 [...]
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Oh, the Humanities!
December 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · General
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Teaching links
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · General
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 week [...]
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Youtube Edu: Education in networked world
March 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments · General
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, [...]
Teaching reflections
March 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General
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 give me the [...]
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Teaching and politics, again
October 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · General
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 [...]
John Ziegler, DFW, and Academic Bias
October 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
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 [...]
Class blogs
October 5th, 2008 · No Comments · General
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 [...]
Changes and Higher Ed
January 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments · General
This is the first January in many, many years that I am not attuned to the academic calendar of syllabus writing, course preparation, or constructing and grading assignments, and I must say that it feels good. I love teaching, and, if student feedback is an indication, I am good at it. I have been an [...]
Professional and Personal Avatars
October 16th, 2007 · No Comments · General
When I first saw an article at IHE called “Professor Avatar,” my interest was naturally piqued. When I read the first paragraph about the professor in the “red Hawaiian shirt, holding a lime margarita in his right hand and a wrinkled, fat cigar in the other,” I groaned. Not another reactionary article in IHE to [...]
Politics in the Classroom
October 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · General
I was going to say something about this a few days ago, but Timothy Burke has done a much better job than I could have. As far as my perosnal practices in the classroom, I don’t neurotically shy away from political discussions in an effort to keep the learning experience sanitized, but I also don’t [...]
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