Category: CMU
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Beginning to Think About Fall 2008 Courses
It is just barely spring break here (well, break at least, if not spring) and I am already turning my attention somewhat to the fall. I have been asked to adapt two existing CMU courses into ones focusing on digital writing. Here is what I have come up with so far: ENG 460 – Current…
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Brown Bag Presentation: Multiliteracies in Composition
Last Friday, I was invited to lead a “brown bag” session for my English department’s composition program. Titled “Multiliteracies in Composition,” we focused our pre-reading on an article about a second-year college composition course developed at Michigan Tech called “Revisions.” Details can be found in the following article: Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki.…
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An Update on Blogging, Podcasting, and Wikiing with Pre-Service Teachers
January has been a busy month for me as I have been coordinating field placements for my ENG 315 students and we have begun exploring the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS in our teaching lives. When we began this work a few short weeks ago, only a handful of these pre-service teachers had…
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Video Welcome for the Semester
Things are underway for the semester — I am looking forward to teaching ENG 315 again, and I made this quick video to welcome students to the class. My daughter helped a bit, too. Enjoy! PS — If anyone can help me figure out why I can’t embed YouTube videos in WordPress, that would be…