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2009.11.19: Class Writing Opportunity: THE FICTION PROJECT
2009.11.05: John Irving Worries For New Novelists -- Should Teachers?
2009.11.01: Teaching NaNoWriMo
2009.10.30: Whose Class is it Anyway? Presentation on Improv
2009.10.26: Fair Educational Use of Popular Culture
2009.10.22: Teachers on Twitter
2009.10.20: Exploring Uncanny Digital Literacies
2009.10.20: Innovation and Listening
2009.09.13: Released Into Language
2009.08.10: AASL Resources on Teaching & Learning
2009.08.10: PlanBook: A Strong Lesson Planner for the Weekly Calendar
2009.07.18: VoiceThread for Educators
2009.07.17: "Student Outcomes": Tiffany Brattina
2009.07.13: Your Most Important Teaching Tool
2009.06.23: The Educational Value of Genre Fiction
2009.06.20: Congratulations to Dennis Jerz
2009.05.27: Horror and the Responsibilities of the Liberal Educator
2009.05.27: Now On Twitter...and Other News
2009.05.27: Putting Student Distraction In Context
2009.05.15: Writer Wanted: Open Faculty Position in Writing Popular Fiction
2009.04.28: Teaching is a Confluence of Opposites
2009.04.03: YouTube in the Classroom: Video Interpretations of Classic Literature
2009.04.02: 200 EduBlogs: Or, Why It Is Impossible for Me to Use a Blogroll
2009.03.27: YouTube EDU (and AcademicEarth)
2009.03.26: High School is to Breadth What College is to Depth
2009.03.18: Quiz Variations No. 2: The Benevolent Corrector
2009.02.25: Managing Time More Effectively
2009.02.14: FACULTY WANTED in Popular Fiction!
2009.01.29: Collage and Analysis (in the English Classroom)
2009.01.28: How the Economic Downturn Hits Universities
2009.01.22: The Writing Teacher's Taxonomy
2009.01.19: More Fun With Elmo
2009.01.08: Reflection Flow Chart
2009.01.08: Humanities Resource Center Online
2009.01.04: Winter Break Decluttering
2008.12.30: Strengthening Syllabi for the New Year
2008.12.20: Reflective Practice in Action: A Reflective Book Review
2008.12.14: STWAIKU: Using Haiku as a Course Closure Activity
2008.11.29: Grade Inflation and the Economic Crisis
2008.11.12: When Part-Time Faculty and Part-Time Students Collide
2008.11.06: The Next President's Challenge for Education
2008.10.18: Why We Assign the Personal Essay
2008.10.17: Teaching Well With Blogs
2008.10.08: Writer's Talk NPR Interview/Podcast with Arnzen
2008.09.19: "Student Outcomes": Kate Hursh
2008.09.15: Just Published: "THE UNLEARNING: Horror and Transformative Theory"
2008.09.07: Teaching Structure Through Graphic Fiction
2008.09.01: "Swirling": College Classes as Playlists
2008.08.29: "Student Outcomes": Mike Rubino
2008.08.23: My Policy on Personal Electronic Devices in the Classroom
2008.08.19: Arnzen Featured in TAA Online
2008.08.12: The 2008 Presidential Candidates on Education
2008.08.11: Students Are Already Workers
2008.08.10: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
2008.08.10: Upgrading Pedablogue
2008.07.24: The Ten Commandments of Teaching Creative Writing
2008.07.21: Textbook and Academic Authors Association
2008.07.17: "Student Outcomes": Jennifer Olivarez
2008.07.10: Six Word Memoirs of Teachers
2008.07.09: Wanted: Books on Teaching Creative Writing
2008.07.04: My New Weblog: "The Popular Uncanny"
2008.06.24: "Student Outcomes": Karissa Kilgore
2008.06.19: Is Reading to Students Bad?
2008.06.12: Writing in the Book
2008.06.09: The Kindergarchy (or, Too Much Love in the Home, Not Enough Pain in the Class)
2008.06.06: Ghoulish Goals: Pittsburgh Professional Magazine Feature
2008.06.01: Jazzy Teaching: Improv, Collaboration and Expertise
2008.05.22: "Student Outcomes": Neha Bawa
2008.05.01: The Munch Piñata (in class Writing Contest)
2008.04.27: Being Contrary
2008.04.17: Dipping into del.icio.us
2008.04.09: The Radical Impossibility of Course Outcomes
2008.04.07: You're Fired: The (Academic) Apprentice
2008.03.28: Seven Principles for Good Practice in Higher Education (& Technology)
2008.03.17: Do We Always Know When We Are Teaching?
2008.03.05: Screams from Right Here
2008.02.28: Who's No Longer Who Among American Teachers
2008.02.24: Tax Season 2008 for Teachers
2008.02.20: Review Materials Wanted
2008.02.08: Questionstorming Revisited
2008.02.04: LibraryThing for Educators
2008.02.01: Edublogs Magazine
2008.01.29: Productivity Hampered by Technology
2008.01.28: Humor in Genre Writing
2008.01.27: Behind the Scenes of Rate My Professor
2008.01.21: Friday Shout-Out + Other Forms of Noise
2008.01.20: Professors Strike Back
2006.04.29: On Sabbatical
2006.04.18: COLLEGE STUDENTS AND TELEVISION
2006.04.15: College Professor: The Second Best Job in America?
2006.04.12: Tickling the Elmo
2006.03.29: Gifts for Professors
2006.03.25: You Gotta Teach this Essay!
2006.03.14: How do you challenge and motivate gifted students?
2006.03.10: Getting Tenure
2006.03.07: Take an Activity Break
2006.02.27: The Permeable Lecture
2006.02.22: The Interplay Between School and College
2006.02.17: What's On Your Office Door?
2006.02.15: The "Dissent-O" Writer's Worskhop
2006.02.08: Crunching the One Hour Class
2006.01.23: A Few Thinkpieces: PopFic | Specialization | Work
2006.01.05: When the Professor Wrote the Textbook
2005.12.25: Seton Hill Blogoversity
2005.12.14: Digital Gumbo
2005.12.02: Norman Who?
2005.11.28: On Updating Handouts
2005.11.16: Getting Off the Burnout Track
2005.11.13: "Highly Qualified" Teachers
2005.10.28: An Immodest Call for Papers (On Arnzen & Horror)
2005.10.21: Musical Chairs
2005.10.12: Comfortably Objective
2005.09.23: A Return to Taxonomy
2005.09.10: Tomorrow's Professor
2005.09.08: Are you a Softie or a Tyrant?
2005.09.05: The Difficulty Paper
2005.08.29: Silly Banter on the First Day
2005.08.24: Shifting the Paradigm: Transformative Learning Theory
2005.08.02: The Tenure Package
2005.07.29: Teaching the Once-a-Week Course
2005.07.17: Office Tips for Teachers
2005.07.16: Getting By In Class...with HP Pavillion Notebooks
2005.07.10: Play Dead: My New Horror Novel
2005.07.05: Adbusters: Game of Life
2005.06.29: Debate on Teacher's Pay
2005.06.18: Impro II: Status
2005.06.14: Impro Ia: Related Reading
2005.06.12: Impro I: Notes on Myself
2005.06.05: Knock Knock Films
2005.05.29: Grossing Out Teacher
2005.05.15: How Freshman Summer Reading Projects Succeed
2005.05.06: Against Professional Development
2005.05.02: A Cello Lesson
2005.04.24: Media Fasting
2005.04.22: The Work-for-Hire Plagiarist
2005.04.17: Who's Who Among American Teachers
2005.04.06: Ambush the White Rabbit
2005.04.05: Bram Stoker Award Finalist
2005.03.27: Teaching Silently
2005.03.25: Competence is What You Do When You Make a Mistake
2005.03.19: Talking Race: A Native American Quiz
2005.03.12: Cynicism in the Pedablogosphere
2005.03.07: Making Student Evaluations Meaningful
2005.03.02: Taking Notes in the Dark
2005.02.25: Recommending Without Reservation
2005.02.24: Professors of Practice
2005.02.20: Confronting Change
2005.02.18: All for One (Grade)
2005.02.15: Cut Up Poetry
2005.01.30: Taxes for Teachers
2005.01.28: Forward Interview
2005.01.27: Rethinking the Syllabus
2005.01.25: Cutting the Threaded Discussions
2005.01.22: Get Back to Work
2005.01.19: E-mail Cholesterol
2005.01.16: Turnitin dot Culture
2005.01.12: The 8th Habit
2005.01.09: Fiction Films as Substitute Texts
2005.01.03: Best of Blogs in Education
2005.01.02: On Reading and Teaching
2004.12.28: Susan Sontag Dies
2004.12.26: Reforming Academic Rank
2004.12.24: Looking for Good Teaching
2004.12.21: Test Anxiety and the A Student
2004.12.20: Quotable Quotes on Education
2004.12.18: Language Maps
2004.12.13: Measuring the Credit Hour
2004.12.13: wiki fixi?
2004.12.10: Left Behind
2004.12.10: Abstinence in Sex Education
2004.12.09: Who's the Boss? Paying to Work
2004.12.09: Teaching is Truth Mediated by Personality
2004.12.07: A Sense of Self as Audience
2004.12.04: overhauling the look
2004.12.03: Military Recruitment in the NCLBA
2004.11.29: Grades and Student Motivation
2004.11.27: Student Engagement, Revisited
2004.11.23: Alternative Uses for Mind-Mapping in The Writing Classroom
2004.11.17: Is Discourse Human Research?
2004.11.14: College Students on Election Day
2004.11.01: Straw Poll on Reading
2004.10.13: Poetry and The Pleasure of the Text
2004.10.09: Derrida Dead
2004.09.26: Teaching the Odd Course
2004.09.18: Outrageously Theatrical Teaching
2004.09.14: Writing Skills Neglected
2004.09.12: Back to the Front
2004.09.03: Writing a Teacher's Guide
2004.09.01: International Statistics
2004.08.30: Affirmations for the First Day of Classes
2004.08.28: Palm-Enabled Teaching
2004.08.25: Meeting Survival
2004.08.03: Just in Time Teaching
2004.07.25: Inclusive Education
2004.07.18: Teachers and Their Children
2004.07.16: A Teacher's Handbook
2004.06.25: Disciplinary Lying
2004.06.16: Everything's Fine?
2004.06.15: Tips for Office Hours
2004.06.12: Waggoner on Teaching Creative Writing
2004.05.31: No Child Left Behind
2004.05.25: Summer Reading
2004.05.21: Best Commencement Address of the Year
2004.05.10: Notes and Snapshots
2004.05.09: Presidential Politics
2004.05.06: One Worth Clicking
2004.05.05: Gallery of Teaching and Learning
2004.04.30: Cheating Crisis: Thoughts
2004.04.27: Primetime Cheating
2004.04.24: Literary Truth or Dare
2004.04.21: Drama Games
2004.04.17: Electronic Portfolio Problems
2004.04.04: Blogging and Tenure
2004.04.03: Collaborating on Assignment Guidelines
2004.04.02: Tax Time!
2004.03.29: Writing Workshop Dogma
2004.03.21: Wiki'd (not Wicked)
2004.03.17: Teaching Portfolio Tips
2004.03.14: Getting Some Perspective on Your Teaching
2004.03.10: No Fear Shakespeare
2004.03.10: Lazy Thinking is Hard-Wired
2004.03.10: The Laughing Fit
2004.03.08: Uncanny Teaching
2004.03.07: The Right to Fail
2004.03.03: Writing Recommendation Letters
2004.02.29: Is Teaching Worth It?
2004.02.25: Teachers are Poor Terrorists
2004.02.23: Teaching Rereading
2004.02.15: Language is a Virus
2004.02.11: Plagiarism is Good
2004.02.10: Demonstrating Good Teaching with E-mail and Other Technologies
2004.02.04: Politics in the Classroom: Ito and Iraq
2004.01.31: Unlearning
2004.01.30: True Teacher Training
2004.01.28: Faculty Time Savers Handout
2004.01.25: Teaching as Organizing
2004.01.24: Time Management Revisited
2004.01.22: Working the Huge Room
2004.01.19: Political Promises Begin
2004.01.16: Two Tips
2004.01.14: First Day Fun...Everday
2004.01.10: Bending to the Bookseller
2004.01.05: Fear of Boredom
2003.12.31: EdBlogger 2003
2003.12.31: Time Management for Teachers
2003.12.23: End of Year Reflection
2003.12.21: An "A" Paper is...
2003.12.17: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
2003.12.14: Gun and Pencil: Book Buyback for Baghdad?
2003.12.12: Missing Freshman Comp?
2003.12.11: Online Education Journals
2003.12.08: Cellphone Cheating
2003.12.08: The REAL School of Rock
2003.12.07: For the record....
2003.12.06: Good Job! Not!
2003.12.05: Is Grade Inflation a Myth?
2003.12.01: A Class Anthology
2003.11.30: Turning Plagiarists In
2003.11.29: Presentation Notes
2003.11.23: Leave No Teacher Behind
2003.11.22: Against School
2003.11.20: My Shadow
2003.11.17: Laundering Time
2003.11.14: When Teachers Quit
2003.11.12: Make 'em Laugh
2003.11.11: Composition Theory and Microsoft Word
2003.11.08: Moving to a new "Office"
2003.11.05: Variation on Collaborative Quizzing (and a moment of reflection)
2003.10.30: Reading to Class
2003.10.27: Remembering The Objective of Learning Objectives
2003.10.26: Cognitive Theory in Practice
2003.10.26: Quizzes Work
2003.10.24: Grade Inflation
2003.10.22: Suing your Professor
2003.10.20: King in the Classroom
2003.10.18: Our Purpose, Revisited
2003.10.16: When the Book is Wrong
2003.10.13: Grading as Revision
2003.10.11: Three Rules of Two
2003.10.09: Multitasking Millenials
2003.10.08: The Student's Predicament
2003.10.07: Square Peg, Round Hole
2003.10.05: Pleasure University
2003.10.04: The Children of Theory
2003.10.03: Preconceptions...
2003.10.03: More is Less
2003.10.02: How Not to Teach I
2003.10.01: Homework Unloaded
2003.10.01: Homework Loads
2003.09.30: Millennials Go to College
2003.09.30: Good Prof vs. Bad Prof
2003.09.29: Scholarship Reconsidered: Conclusions
2003.09.28: Literature Circles
2003.09.28: Scholarship Reconsidered IV & V: Diversity in Time & Space
2003.09.28: The Teacher's Predicament
2003.09.28: Do Essay Comments Matter?
2003.09.28: Quiz Grader...Note Taker
2003.09.27: Scholarship Reconsidered III: On the Diversity of Faculty Talent
2003.09.26: "Shout Out" Exercise
2003.09.26: Scholarship Reconsidered II: The Boyer Model
2003.09.25: Scholarship Reconsidered I: Shifting Meanings of "Scholarship"
2003.09.25: Research || Teaching
2003.09.24: Educator Blogs
2003.09.23: Uncanny!
2003.09.23: Anti-Plagiarism
2003.09.23: The Blueprint
2003.09.22: Commenting (again)
2003.09.22: Commenting
2003.09.21: Essential Definition II: "Scholarship of Teaching"
2003.09.21: Essential Definition I: PEDAGOGUE
2003.09.21: A New Purpose

Matt Duvall commented on Whose Class is it Anyway? Presentation on Improv: Dr. A--I enjoyed the slide show and the links. There are some great ideas here that I will try in m...
Mike Arnzen commented on Teaching NaNoWriMo: I added a special batch of "nanowrimo"-specific prompts to the Instigation this morning. Good luck, ...
Michael Arnzen commented on Measuring the Credit Hour: I really can't answer that one, unfortunately. It all depends on the requirements of the PhD degree...
Vonnie James commented on Measuring the Credit Hour: Hello Dr.Michael: Thanks for your information. Could you please help me in understanding the term "...
Dennis G. Jerz commented on Whose Class is it Anyway? Presentation on Improv: How interesting to read that offering approval is a way of restraining thought. I didn't attend th...
Michael Arnzen commented on Whose Class is it Anyway? Presentation on Improv: So true. I would have just 'winged it,' even, but I wanted to win over the skeptics by appealing to...
JSA commented on Whose Class is it Anyway? Presentation on Improv: Sorry Michael, but... OK, you wouldn't have anything to post without the slides, but their text-bas...
Dee Gardner commented on Innovation and Listening: Great concept. All of the best innovation I have been part of as a manager came from listening to o...
Mike Arnzen commented on Innovation and Listening: Thanks, Todd! Uncannily, one of my colleagues at Seton Hill (Mike Atherton) showed me a book on cr...
Todd Schoepflin commented on Innovation and Listening: I really like this concept of "active listening". I definitely agree that listening factors into cre...

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