Literature Course Redesigned for Eportfolio
In just over a month I will be participating in our Biggio Center's Summer Course (Re)Design Seminar in order to design a core literature...
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...
Fixing the World at 8 a.m.
One of the encouraging elements of the eportfolio model of first-year composition, which I have remarked on before, is that it provides...
We're in this Exam Together
I’m considering using a practice group examination before the individual mid-term examinations in my upcoming literature classes. Perhaps...
An Exercise in Blended Technologies
Using ClipConverter and Google to locate commercials and print advertisements and download them to my computer, I assigned my student...
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,...
Students and Assigned Reading
Let me confess that in the early years of my undergraduate study I was not a conscientious reader. I, like many before and after me, was...