My student blog posts for ENG 704: Teaching Writing Online are rolling in and it warms that cockles of my bloggy heart. I think back to when I was a grad student taking Computer-Mediated Pedagogy from Dr. Kristine Blair in the early 2000s, then at Bowling Green State University and now Professor and Dean, College … Continue reading Computer-Mediated Pedagogy: Then and Now
Looks Count for Blogs Too
The first reflective blog posts based on the readings are coming in for my Teaching Writing Online class and I must congratulation all the early writers have done their first reflective post. The module ends on January 28, so yea early writers! There is even have one comment, a choice they all have that gives extra credit but really, … Continue reading Looks Count for Blogs Too
What a Teaching Writing Online course can do
Any way I look at it, teaching writing online is more work for faculty than teaching in the face-to-face classroom. It is also more work for students, but this post will be looking at it from the faculty side and counting the costs, most of them personal and paid for by faculty rather than the … Continue reading What a Teaching Writing Online course can do
ENG 704: Choosing a Blog Platform
An earlier version of this post was done for an ENG 725 on "Teaching Writing Online." I will be updating those posts to include what's new since then and to better fit the new course. In my ENG 704: Teaching Writing Online class this spring, one of the things they will be doing is reflective … Continue reading ENG 704: Choosing a Blog Platform
More LMS review
After the great Moodle breakdown last semester, I had to scramble to find something to replace it that did not require me to do the upkeep. The one-click options that remained with my host were not going to work. Canvas has changed its terms. I'm probably doing too much for an edublog to satisfy me … Continue reading More LMS review
Yes, Pinterest
This is a post for English 704; Teaching Writing Online, and it may be a brief one. I want to make sure writing teachers think about social media as more than just social, even the ones that are so highly gendered at this point that the idea of an educational use for them seems laughable. … Continue reading Yes, Pinterest
ENG 704: Enter the Wiki World
This is based on an earlier post, now retooled for ENG 704. This post is for my ENG 704: Teaching Writing Online class, but others are welcome to read it too. Oh, the wiki. So lightheartedly named, so prone to being fundamentally a part of what we do online that we don't even think of … Continue reading ENG 704: Enter the Wiki World
ENG 704: Getting started with Teaching Writing Online
An earlier version of this post was written for a ENG 725 on "Teaching Writing Online" I’m teaching a graduate seminar in rhetoric and composition this semester and next week is the first week, the week to get our collective feet wet, and while we’re splashing in that virtual brook, be like Phaedrus and Socrates on that riverbank and … Continue reading ENG 704: Getting started with Teaching Writing Online
Using Twitter for Professional Development
I remember when Twitter was new. This is not my first post about it, having written a post for my Writing I students back in 2012 and other posts on my earlier blog, Techsophist that have now disappeared. I've been using Twitter for a long time now, since 2007, and I definitely have a perspective … Continue reading Using Twitter for Professional Development
Lanette Cadle 