This year, in what was probably the most stressful academic year on record for me, I completed the National Poetry month Poem-a-Day Challenge. For those wishing to see the now password-protected drafts, please contact me (Twitter or Facebook would be a good way) and ask for the password. In any case, truly, this does not … Continue reading Après-National Poetry Month and the NaBloPoMo Challenge
My History Using Blogs as Digital Classroom Space
This is a blog post intended for my ENG 725; Teaching Writing Online class, but also one that others may be interested in too. Yes, I''ve used blogs in the classroom for a long time. What I don't talk about much though, is how early on I used a blog AS a classroom. My first … Continue reading My History Using Blogs as Digital Classroom Space
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
Wiki-Wiki
This post is for my ENG 725: 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 it unless we think of Wikipedia, and much of the muttering about … Continue reading Wiki-Wiki
What Do We Teach When We Teach Writing Online
That is the title for module two of my Teaching Writing Online course and it's a tricky question. We intend to teach students to write, but the core of the answer lies in how we do it. One thing is certain: we cannot teach a process by simply giving students access to materials and expecting … Continue reading What Do We Teach When We Teach Writing Online
Choosing a Blog
In my ENG 725: Teaching Writing Online class this spring, one of the things they will be doing is reflective readings responses. That should be no surprise, especially in an online class where face-to-face discussion takes some mediated contortioning. I know blogs seem so old-school now, but really, I have yet to find anything better … Continue reading Choosing a Blog
Getting started with 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 ask some deep questions about what it is we do and how … Continue reading Getting started with Teaching Writing Online
Childhood Should Be Multimodal
I'm beginning the prepwork for Fall 2012 now, and book orders were so long ago that I'm rechecking to see what books I ordered! In doing that, I see that my memory is correct: I ordered Cynthia Selfe's Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers for both my ENG 520 and my ENG 726 classes. The first … Continue reading Childhood Should Be Multimodal
The Multimodal Poem Assignment
I've done a multimodal poetry assignment successfully for Intro to Poetry for quite some time now, and once students see what can be done with multiple modalities in poetry, some good things can happen. Sure, there is less reliance on text, but the goal is to still have the same quality with the text, but … Continue reading The Multimodal Poem Assignment
Exploratory Writing
One of the two larger writing assignments in the blended Writing I I'm teaching is an exploratory essay, a form of writing that my students have not experienced before. That does not surprise me. The exploratory essay isn't really an end unto itself, although a good exploratory can be very readable on its own. No, … Continue reading Exploratory Writing
Lanette Cadle 