Category: Pedagogy
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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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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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Through the Looking Glass
While sparcing down my classroom kitsch, I found one of my favorite books. It is an old copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures and Wonderland The book is copyrighted from 1946. It is rubber-stamped with the word “Discard” punched diagonally across the publisher’s name on the cover page. It was one of the books that […]
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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 […]