That Blog About the Blog
It’s been three years since I began this website, and more specifically this blog, which in itself began as an afterthought. I had...
Active & Abroad: Staying Busy Overseas
My first consideration, then, was to integrate our field trips into the larger course theme, Empire and Identity, for our British Literature
Small Class Active Learning
I have several challenging opportunities for my active learning this summer. I’ll have a small class of ten students, we’ll be in the...
Recording, Podcasting, and Writing
Last summer I planned how I would integrate eportfolio into my literature classes, and after two semesters of implementing and adjusting...
Active and Collaborative!
The overview essays, wherein students report on their stages of progress regarding their final analysis papers, seem to indicate that...
New Insight into Student Cognition
This week in my eportfolio adaptation for my American Literature classes I’ve had a dozen or so students come by my office to get...
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...
Visualizing the Re-Designed Course
Our Course Re-Design seminar ended Thursday afternoon and the opportunity to think about the larger goals of my class and to collaborate...
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,...
Eportfolio Passes Muster
Having now engineered my first adaptation of Composition One around an eportfolio design, I culled through my students’ final reflections...
