April 2008
Sunday 27 April 2008
- Being Contrary - I've been reflecting on an approach I consciously employed last week in two different class scenarios -- an online chat with graduate students and in a discussion of a literary reading with advanced writing students -- just to see how it might stimulate the conversation. I launched both by being... (10:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)
Thursday 17 April 2008
- Dipping into del.icio.us - I have stopped running a newsletter I used to keep for my journalism/writing students (and also freelance writers), called The Handy Job Hunter for Writers. This newsletter once offered me a place to write articles about some the issues I was teaching, as well as to connect with others in... (18:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 9 April 2008
- The Radical Impossibility of Course Outcomes - "...however effectively one 'prepares' for a class, the realities of learning alter the original orientation in a number of creative and unpredictable ways. If the structure is too tight, or the scenario is too predictable, then we move towards a tightly organized outcomes-based approach to learning. We end up... (16:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Monday 7 April 2008
- You're Fired: The (Academic) Apprentice - Note: What you are about to read is more about the Donald Trump television show than any college-affiliated apprenticeship (well, unless you count Trump University, of course). I recently employed a version of Trump's "The Apprentice" game show in my "Publication Workshop" classroom on the spur of the moment, and... (18:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)