Category: Higher Education
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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.…
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1st Assignment: How to Write a Professional Email
In this first assignment of the year, inspired by Professor of English and History at Schoolcraft College, Steven L. Berg, students in my EC1 ALP course at NJCU will write a professional email introducing themselves and share a 200-word response to the question, “What should we be writing about right now?” Or, more specifically, what topic would be…
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Differentiated Learning Should be Key to Anti-Racist Learning (and vice versa)
My apologies for going a bit MIA over the last months. My excuse (shameless plug alert!!!) was that I was co-writing a book (with Steve Volk, co-director of the GLCA/GLAA Consortium on Teaching and Learning) with very short window (The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention). Excited that it will be released on…
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Simon Says Mindfulness Enhances Learning
As a group we watched, “Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last,” a Pop-Up School presentation sponsored by Behance. Then, an EdX MOOC entitled, “Mindfulness and Resilience to Stress at Work”. Collectively, our varying perspectives identified positive and negative aspects within the format of each learning experience as well as how our unique learning styles received…
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“Trust Your Students” – Remote Summit 2020
On Monday, July 13, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis presented at the REMOTE summit hosted by Arizona State University. Our talk, “Trust Your Students,” was about co-learning and using active learning tools like Think-Pair-Share and Entry and Exit Tickets to support peer-to-peer learning in a community, whether onsite or online. At our session, there were…
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“Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?”
“Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?” For those not on Twitter, I have cut-and-pasted this Twitter thread as a blog. 1-“Why are so many of your @CUNY colleagues dying?” This is the question I’m being asked since an @insidehighered article reported on 38+ faculty and staff COVID deaths. No one has even…
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Both a Grad Student and Instructor: Advocating for Compassionate Teaching During a Global Health Pandemic
The Spring 2020 semester is over and now it’s time to to reflect on what teaching during this seemingly apocalyptic semester meant to me. For many teachers and instructors, Covid-19 transformed how we interacted with our students and approached our pedagogical methods because we could no longer see or engage with our students in person…