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College Writing and Space Exploration Theme
As many of you know, this is my first year teaching college writing at Kent State University, and it’s already been an enlightening experience. I chose space exploration as the course theme (after a...
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Rebecca Wilson Lundin’s “Teaching with Wikis: Toward a Networked Pedagogy”
At tomorrow’s Blogging Brown Bag discussion organized by Kent State University’s Office of Digital Composition, we’re going to discuss Rebecca Wilson Lundin’s “Teaching with Wikis: Toward a Networked...
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Teaching Portfolios and Reflection
It is essential to regularly reflect on teaching, and I do this after every class that I teach. When a course is over and I receive my student Student Surveys of Instruction, I begin another round of...
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Spotted on Slashdot: A Silicon Valley School That Doesnt Use Computers
Slashdot linked to this New York Times article about the Waldorf school in Silicon Valley. It is a school that rejects the idea that students learn better or should learn at all with computers....
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Prepping MacBook for Digital Pedagogy Seminar
I’m prepping my MacBook for this evening’s Brittain Fellow Digital Pedagogy seminar. As you can see above, we are going to be running simultaneous backchannels–one on Twitter and one on TodaysMeet.com....
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My Georgia Tech ENGL 1102 Class Description and Reading List for Spring 2012,...
Martin Widmer’s “Tomb [V']” (2007).[UPDATE: I volunteered to teach three sections of ENGL1101 instead of three sections of ENGL1102 when the school made the request. This gives me an opportunity to...
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Down and Dirty Guide to Literary Research with Digital Humanities Tools: Text...
Miao and Jason get things done with computers! As part of the final Digital Pedagogy seminar of fall 2012, Margaret Konkol, Patrick McHenry, Olga Menagarishvili, and I will lead the discussion on...
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Register Now for My Science Fiction Class at Georgia Tech, LMC 3214, SS...
Hallway poster for my first Science Fiction class. Photo of the Alien xenomorph captured at Seattle’s fantastic EMP Museum. This summer, I will teach Georgia Tech’s Science Fiction class (LMC 3214). If...
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Mirja Lobnik’s and My Workshop at the Assessing Multimodality: Navigating the...
Perception and cognition. This morning, Mirja Lobnik and I will be co-hosting a workshop on “Multimodality and Perception: A Multi-Sensory Approach to Teaching Rhetorical Skills” at the Assessing...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214 Continues: Definitions of SF Active Learning...
For today’s class, I had planned on us spending about half the class on definitions of SF before continuing our discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Happily, nearly all of my students showed up...
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LMC3403, Technical Communication: Lego, Haptics, and Instructions
Students at work with Lego. My LMC3403, Technical Communication students are well into their second unit project on reader-centered and process-driven fundamentals. In a fun assignment, I wanted the...
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I’m a Recipient of this Year’s Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching...
Recently, I was told that I was a recipient of this year’s Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology! The selection criteria for the Class of...
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Spring 2014 Classes and First Assignments: ENGL1101 and LCC3403 at Georgia Tech
This semester, I am teaching three classes at Georgia Tech: two sections of ENGL1101/English Composition I and one section of LCC3403/Technical Communication. My ENGL1101 class focuses on learning...
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Interview with Producer, Writer, and Director of the 1977 Educational...
Photo courtesy of Paul Lally. Late last year on October 3, 2013, I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Lally, the producer, writer, and director of an educational program from 1977 called “Space...
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How to Build a Sparring Lightsaber with Parts from Home Depot and Spare Parts...
Photo courtesy of Ryan Cox. My cousin Ryan Cox is a longtime practitioner of a variety of martial arts including kung fu and tai chi. Ryan and his two older brothers–Ian and Jarret–grew up learning,...
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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Teaching College Writing, Annotated...
This is the fifty-third post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Teaching College Writing, Quiz, What do...
This is the fifty-fourth post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Atlanta Science Fiction Society Talk on Teaching SF at Georgia Tech, Tomorrow
Atlanta Science Fiction Society logo. If you’re in the area tomorrow, you can catch my talk on teaching science fiction at Georgia Tech at the Atlanta Science Fiction Society meeting at the Sandy...
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Teaching at City Tech, Fall 2014, Syllabi for ENG 1101 and ENG 3771
For my first teaching assignments at City Tech, I received two sections of ENG 1101 English Composition I and one section of ENG 3771 Advanced Career Writing (a professional and technical communication...
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Site Update: Course Syllabi and Assignments Added Under Teaching Section
Over the weekend, I added new pages under the Teaching menu option for the courses that I have taught, am teaching, and will teach. Each course page includes descriptions, syllabi, and assignments...
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