Category: Higher Education
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So How Are You Planning to Start Your Class Tomorrow?
Today (Nov 3, election day) in our Futures Initiative meeting we talked about what we’ll do in class the day after the election. Several of the FI Fellows are graduate students who are also teachers. The election is the elephant in the room… but it won’t be the same elephant for every student and, as […]
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New book offers vital toolbox in visual research methods for LIS
New book offers vital toolbox in visual research methods for LIS Facet Publishing announce the publication of Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies, edited by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb Visual research methods (VRM) comprise a collection of methods that incorporate visual elements such as maps, drawings, photographs, videos, as […]
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Collaborative Close Reading Online
This blog explains how collaborative close reading can be done online. I recommend reading that post before this one. Since posting my collaborative close reading activity nearly two years ago, photographs of colorful, annotated excerpts have circulated on social media from classrooms all over the world. As professors have adapted this activity for different classroom […]
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Call for Submissions for General Issue of the the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Dec. 2, 2020 Deadline
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy General Issue with a Forum on Teaching in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic Issue Editors: Nicole Zeftel (SUNY Buffalo) Alexis Larsson (CUNY Graduate Center) Teresa Ober (University of Notre Dame) Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/ The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at […]
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An Activity to Put a Stop to “Students Don’t Read My Comments on their Papers”
As a composition instructor, one of the complaints I hear most often among colleagues (and I’ve definitely said this myself) goes something like this: “Students don’t read my comments on their papers.” It feels like such a waste of time when this happens–and that is frustrating–but it also means, in my view, that we are doing […]
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Benefits of Using Brightspace Learning Management: A Student Perspective
For the past 3 months, I had the opportunity to work a co-op term at my university working on upgrading our learning management system from Moodle to the D2L system Brightspace. My background comes from Social Sciences and my knowledge of computer science is very limited. But with my major in Political Science and minor […]
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Vlogs, GIFs, Twine, and Macros: Multimodal Writing
Vlogs, GIFs, Twine, & Macros Multimodal Writing ENGL 2150 Fall 2018 *** Jesse Rice-Evans, Graduate Teaching Fellow M 5:10-7:20; Vertical Campus Computer Lab Office Hours by Appointment Only Baruch College | CUNY In this course, the second semester required writing course at Baruch, you will develop your ability to read, write, and think critically. […]
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Come Read About Me and What I Think We Should Write About
My name is Leshawn Anderson and I am a student at New Jersey City University in English Composition 1 , a first-year writing course taught by Christina Katopodis.I have strength and weakness when it come to writing . My weakness is not knowing how to start off my paragraphs sometimes , every so oftenI have a […]
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Class Recap: The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
For today’s English Composition 1 class, we read June Jordan’s “Poem About My Rights,” and two essays by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider, “Poetry is Not a Luxury” and “The Master’s Tools.” We began by reading and responding to one another’s posts to the Blackboard discussion question for the week, “What should we be writing about […]
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Anatomy of a Team Meeting
At the Futures Initiative (FI), we have a 2-hour meeting with the whole team every week where we plan our collective work, update each other on the state of our individual or small group projects, and discuss pedagogy. This week, we had our second meeting of the semester, together with old and new team members. […]