Big-Picture Thinking
In “Assessing the Future: Eportfolio Trends, Uses, and Options in Higher Education,” by Michael Reese and Ron Levy of Johns Hopkins...
Later Thoughts on the Eportfolio
What makes eportfolio viable as a pedagogy for our students should also be a significant factor in convincing our peers of its merit....
Early Thoughts on the Fall Eportfolio
I'm trying to create a model of the eportfolio design I want for my fall Composition I classes in our active learning classroom,...
Active Classroom and Cyber Spaces
The excellent website on eportfolios maintained by the Rhetoric and Writing Department at the University of Mississippi contends that...
Eportfolios and Core Composition
Dr. Lindsay Doukopoulos and I are working together this summer to design an eportfolio version of our core composition classes for the...
Thesis Days
At a basic level, composition and literature classes both ask how we understand and interact with the world. They both explore how we...
Teaching Circles
Our department's core composition committee has just voted to approve our pilot teaching circles to begin this fall. In the...
Plans for more Streamlined Assignments
As the Spring 2015 semester draws to a close, I’m thinking about what I’d like to do further in our active learning classroom,...
Engaged Student Conferences
In retrospect, my first active learning experiences came via the one-to-one conferences I have always had with my students on their...
Kathy Takayama & Validating Uncertainty
I attended a lecture today by microbiologist Dr. Kathy Takayama of Brown University and the University of New South Wales. She has...
