Strategies for improving the structure of your papers
Try the following strategies to help you improve the structure of your paper. Study Guide Strategy This strategy works for any type of paper but is particularly effective for papers designed to inform or analyze. Imagine that your readers need to study your paper in order to prepare for an exam that will test their knowledge of your topic. How …
Read MoreNews: No Grading, More Learning – Inside Higher Ed
Controversial idea! http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/03/grading
Read MoreVideo essays
This semester I gave students the option to develop their final projects using whatever mode of delivery seemed appropriate to their message. Some chose to write traditional print-based essays, some chose to make PowerPoint presentations, and some chose to make videos. Some of the videos were mini documentaries about issues such as identity based on sexual orientation or cross cultural …
Read MorePublishing student writing online
Giving students the opportunity to write for online publication can help them think seriously about audience and purpose. One option is to ask students to write articles for a web site that welcomes user-submitted content designed to meet a particular goal. An example is eHow.com, which is a site that features articles and videos that contain instructions on how to do …
Read MoreWordPress as a Learning Management System
As an instructor who uses WordPress as my primary CMS, I find this very interesting! WordPress as a Learning Management System – Move Over, Blackboard – WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org
Read MoreTeaching with wikis
A wiki is a web site with pages that can be easily edited by anyone the site owner grants permission to, without the users needing to know anything about HTML. The user clicks “edit” to make changes to a page, types the changes into an editing window, and then uses a toolbar with options similar to what’s available in a word …
Read MoreUsing blogs in the writing classroom
Instructors use blogs in the classroom for a variety of purposes and in a wide range of ways. One common purpose is to present course materials, such as daily assignments, with each assignment in a new blog entry. Blog software makes this process very easy, with little to no knowledge of HTML required. Instructors can also set up their blogs so …
Read MoreFair use for media literacy
Helpful resource to better understand the “fair use” issues we need to consider when we ask students to compose multimodal texts using “found” images and audiovisual clips: NCTE Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Read MoreViews: Teaching With Blogs – Inside Higher Ed
Interesting analysis of issues that come up when we ask students to blog: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/07/27/arvan
Read MoreNews: Technologically Illiterate Students – Inside Higher Ed
News: Technologically Illiterate Students – Inside Higher Ed tags: digital literacy Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Read MoreViews: Honorable Technology – Inside Higher Ed
Interesting cautionary tale http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/06/28/tomasch
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I’m an instructor as well as the Digital Composition Coordinator for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder.
Most of my web design energies go towards my class web sites and sites for my PWR colleagues, so please pardon any mess you come across here!
