I am currently dealing with three major projects: Completing my dissertation. Applying for 2010 positions Finishing home renovations. The middle task, quite literally sandwiched between…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: teaching
This year has been a study in contrasts. I chose to teach a traditional technical writing course in the fall and a hybrid course during…
I am completing an online portfolio, which is always a good process for self-evaluation as an instructor. Because I ask my students to create online…
My students are not as tech-savvy as I assumed. No only are they not on the bleeding edge of technology, they suffer from the standard…
I spent the day preparing the course I am teaching. It’s a hybrid, with online content constituting half the course. That is a positive thing,…
My first week of teaching this year was frustrating. The initial classroom was unfinished, lacking electrical outlets and the standard overhead LCD projector. This killed…
My students have been using Wikibooks, a LEGO CAD application, and various DTP tools. I think their skills will translate much better to the workplace…
As some of us mourn (complain) the state of the Internet, I wonder how we can teach students to write and think in ways that…
I am a skeptic when it comes to technology in the classroom. From accounts like those found in The Flickering Mind: Saving Education from the…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley November 2006 Issue October 8, 2006 No Small Towns Online “My parents don’t have a clue. They think I only have…