Eportfolio Passes Muster
Having now engineered my first adaptation of Composition One around an eportfolio design, I culled through my students’ final reflections...
Oral Presentations
I’ve been rethinking the assignment of oral presentations recently, in part because they’re still common in first-year composition...
Gosh...It Works
Another red letter day for active learning in my composition class this morning. Frankly I wasn’t sure what to expect as we’re in that...
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...
Keep It as Simple as Possible and Don’t Talk so Much
I was reminded again today of one of the more personally difficult aspects of active learning. After a few brief announcements and...
Benefits of Reflective Assignments
Led by Dr. Lesley Bartlett, we began our workshop on reflective writing across disciplines yesterday by visiting Jenny Moon's list of...
Creating Context and Purpose
Although I always liked writing, college composition classes never appealed to me as an undergraduate, and while the reasons for this may...
The Ideal Study Space?
The designers and other stakeholders in the construction of Auburn University's new classroom facility, which is now going to be...
A Domain of One's Own @ Emory
Several of us teaching Freshman Composition with eportfolio had a meeting yesterday morning with Dr. Heather Julien, a Senior Lecturer...
Interpreting Artifacts
Last Friday my composition students, working on their eportfolios this semester in our active learning classroom, studied and commented...
