We often ask our student to reflect, in writing, on what they are learning. But how often do we challenge ourselves to do the same as teachers? This semester I set out to chronicle my experiences teaching a web class, week-by-week. I realized that my past experiences with teaching web classes were vague and jumbled [...]
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One Semester in the Life of a Web Class…
March 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blogs and Blogging, Distance Education, Learning Management Systems, Moodle, Tools, Uncategorized
Tags: Authoring·Distance Education·Learning Management Systems·Moodle·pedagogy·teaching
Creating Cuaderna Vía
March 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Authoring, Composition, Free, Resources, Tools
Last summer, Chris Conway and Ignacio Ruiz-Perez approached me about helping them with a new idea they had – a Spanish-language literary journal for UT Arlington students called Cuaderna Vía. They already had an issue’s worth of content, but needed help producing the tangible journal.
Over those months, we designed and produced a print edition of [...]
Tags: Authoring·Composition·Free·Multimedia·student-student learning
Digital Texts in the Composition Classroom, Feb 25th
February 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Authoring, Composition, Free, Multimedia, Resources, Tools, Video, Web 2.0, Workshops, YouTube
Early adopters find ways to teach complex concepts, methods and software flying by the seat of our pants to be sure, but buoyed by much early trial and error experience acquired from having taught ourselves. For someone like me, whose field is digital media, I have made that seat-of-the-pants stuff my specialty, and, as a [...]
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