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...
Fixing the World at 8 a.m.
One of the encouraging elements of the eportfolio model of first-year composition, which I have remarked on before, is that it provides...
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...
Students and Assigned Reading
Let me confess that in the early years of my undergraduate study I was not a conscientious reader. I, like many before and after me, was...
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...
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...
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...
Teaching Reflective Writing
Although many years ago I required composition students to keep writing journals, with mixed results, otherwise I haven't often made...
