Small Class Active Learning
I have several challenging opportunities for my active learning this summer. I’ll have a small class of ten students, we’ll be in the...
Recording, Podcasting, and Writing
Last summer I planned how I would integrate eportfolio into my literature classes, and after two semesters of implementing and adjusting...
Active and Collaborative!
The overview essays, wherein students report on their stages of progress regarding their final analysis papers, seem to indicate that...
Group Eportfolios and Collaborative Learning
I’ve now started my eportfolio-based American Literature class, hoping to capture the success I had last year with the eportfolio-based...
Engaging Students in Large Lectures
Last March 24, several of us who apply active learning strategies in our larger lecture classes participated in a panel discussion, part...
Summer Plans to Wed Eportfolio and Active Learning in Literature Classes
As over the last several years I have been developing and using active learning strategies in both my composition and literature classes,...
Poets on Revue
We returned to the carousel strategy this past week in my American literature class. Both because I wanted to break from the pattern of...
Active Learning for First-time Teachers (part 3)
While I concede the effectiveness of active learning as a strategy for acquainting new teachers with their new profession, especially...
Active Learning for First-Time Teachers (part 2)
This past fall semester I had a chance to bring some of my active learning course design to the large lecture section of American...
Active Learning Still Led by Experts
Back in July I responded to an editorial by Keith M. Parsons of the University of Houston, Clear Lake who rather flippantly dismissed the...
