Category: Academic Life
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Notes from Steve Graham’s “Evidence-Based Practice in Writing”
Another great session this week, this time with one of the co-authors of the Writing Next report: Steve Graham. Here is an overview from the MSU LARC site: Steve Graham, Vanderbilt University Evidence-Based Practice in Writing – Drawing on Experimental, Qualitative, and Single Subject Design Research for Answers Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:30am – 1:00pm…
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Notes from Margaret Hedstrom’s “The Future of Networked Knowledge”
Notes from Margaret Hedstrom’s “The Future of Networked Knowledge” Overview Announcement: Dr. Hedstrom is an archivist who is on the faculty of the School of Information at U of M. Her research interest is digital information. She has done some interesting cross cultural empirical research on user response to various methods of archiving digital files.…
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Meme: Passion Quilt
Kevin tagged me to continue Miguel‘s Passion Quilt meme. Cool! Given that I have been reading about memes in Lankshear and Knobel’s New Literacies, this was timely. So, here goes: Images from my ENG 315: Writing in the Elementary Schools Courses, Spring 2008 Why these images? Well, they highlight some of the conversations that we…
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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…
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Peer Review Publishing
Yesterday, I attended “Peer Review Publishing as a Tool for Teaching Biotechnology: The MMG 445 eJournal Experiment Using Production-Level Freeware” by George Garrity, MSU Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. George will describe a teaching experiment, now in its second year, that he and his colleagues, Terry Marsh, and Scott Harrison, began in MMG 445: Basic Biotechnology.…