April 2004
Friday 30 April 2004
- Cheating Crisis: Thoughts - As I watched Primetime Thursday's special on the "Cheating Crisis" last night, I felt the full range of familiar emotions: frustration with students who don't realize that they're only cheating themselves out of learning experiences, anger at the audacity of students who proudly plagiarise, vindication when the students who in... (10:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 6 Comments)
Tuesday 27 April 2004
- Primetime Cheating - TV probably worth watching: Primetime Thursday (news program) on ABC Thursday, April 29 at 10 p.m. ET "Charles Gibson investigates the cheating crisis in America's schools from plagiarism to high-tech gadgets, students are using old methods and new technology to beat the system. " == UPDATE: I just learned... (23:44 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Saturday 24 April 2004
- Literary Truth or Dare - We're approaching "dead week" at SHU, and in my fiction writing course students are doing end-of-term readings, where everyone gets their "fifteen minutes of fame" by presenting selections from their term's work out loud before an audience. It's graded lightly, but sharing is its own reward and it's a great... (00:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 21 April 2004
- Drama Games - Dennis Jerz's recent post on the pleasures and rewards of running a "drama game" in the classroom (in this case, teaching networking theory to advanced college students by having them play in a circle) really got me thinking. My classes are a lot of laughs, and I often try to... (10:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Saturday 17 April 2004
- Electronic Portfolio Problems - Yesterday, each of our graduating English majors presented their "showcase" portfolios to a pair of English faculty, giving a ten minute speech followed by a question & answer period. Instead of an exit exam, we ask students to reflect on how they have met the objectives of the English major... (11:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 6 Comments)
Sunday 4 April 2004
- Blogging and Tenure - For my presentations over the past few weeks, I've been researching the role of blogging in faculty development. One issue that comes up repeatedly is whether or not a blog should "count" as professional scholarship. Obviously, this weblog is self-consciously focused on the scholarship of teaching; other blogs are teaching... (17:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Saturday 3 April 2004
- Collaborating on Assignment Guidelines - My colleague in the English program at Seton Hill U, Dennis Jerz, posts a superb reflective entry on teaching in his blog today, discussing how he routinely uses the internet to distribute handouts to students and how he might better meet student needs with them. The post focuses on what... (12:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 9 Comments)
Friday 2 April 2004
- Tax Time! - Tax Day is fast approaching in the USA. I've gathered up all my paperwork and I'm going to try to tackle them this weekend, armed with nothing more than a few books on taxes for educators and H&R Block's TaxCut. If you haven't started even thinking about this matter yet,... (20:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)