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,...
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...
Eportfolio Passes Muster
Having now engineered my first adaptation of Composition One around an eportfolio design, I culled through my students’ final reflections...
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...
