Every aspect of a college student’s life is in flux right now. All the familiar routines they are used to are changing because of COVID-19. One of the best things you can do is provide these students with a consistent…
Category: Teaching with Digital Tools
Preparing Students for Online Classes
Teaching completely online writing courses quickly taught me that students needed additional preparation and support in most cases. While students at my university are online often, they are not frequently online for academic purposes. Now, thanks to COVID-19, they are…
Teaching Online 911 Collection on Evernote
As everyone scrambles to support students in online classes, colleagues are sharing links to teaching tips, free online resources, and classroom activities. I have found links in my Twitter Timeline, my Facebook Newsfeed, and my email inbox. Lots of links.…
Connecting Selber and Halliday
Ever since I looked at the review of Stuart Selber’s Multiliteracies for a Digital Age in Composition Forum 14.2 (Courtesy of a tip from Bradley Dilger), I have been reflecting on my notes about M. A. K. Halliday’s literacy engagements.…
Alphabetic Text as the Only Text
I’m befuddled by this MLA call for proposals for a volume on the Changing Role of Writing in Composition. Everything I understand about multimodal texts tells me that any alphabetic text is not tapping the linguistic mode alone; but from…
Faking Social Media Updates
One of my favorite projects has students creating social media updates from someone else’s point of view. Students choose fictional or nonfictional characters and then create Tweets, Facebook status updates, and Instagram posts. The challenge is that I don’t want…
my #clmooc journey so far
Our project for the third week of #clmooc was to make a map of some kind. I took the first option and created this map of my journey in this course so far. If the text size is too small,…
Audience, Peer Review, and the MOOC
I failed at #WEXMOOC this week. Though admittedly, I feel a little tricked by the nature of the MOOC (defined generally) as well. Our second assignment asked us to reflect on our identities as writers in relationship to three other…
The Tiresome Insistence of the MOOC
I covet beta site access. I download and install the newest tools. I try out and review apps before they catch on. I enjoy crash testing systems (even if their developers wish I wouldn’t). But MOOCs haven’t tempted me. Every…
How Online Professional Development Changed My Life
This post originally appeared on the NCTE Inbox blog. I happened upon it today and found myself reminiscing on the paths that I’ve traveled to get to who I am. I thought I’d copy it over to my site to…