Collaboration Revisited
Usually when I require my students to try something in the classroom, a strategy, a technique, or a technology, for instance, I prefer to...
Structured Collaboration for Novice Writers
In recent conversation with a colleague about active learning in the composition classroom, the nature of writing came up; that is, do we...
Can Glass Boards be too much of a Good Thing?
On the one hand, my literature students have become so proficient at their group work that most of them have already discovered their...
What's so Interesting About You?
I wanted to begin the semester in my composition classes with a preliminary collaboration exercise and I wanted it to be low stakes, low...
Active and Collaborative!
The overview essays, wherein students report on their stages of progress regarding their final analysis papers, seem to indicate that...
Sam Elliott Should Record Carl Sandburg's Poetry
Another fruitful day on the poetry carousel in my American Literature class yesterday has brightened the room a little. Last year, in...
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...
