I recently wrote about wordriver (and my ambivalence regarding it). This week I'd like to touch on a markedly different publication, Kairos. Kairos is subtitled "A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy." They've been around for more than a decade, which means they were publishing...
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This is it. This is the summer you will brush up on your teaching skills or your organization techniques. You know it will make your life easier and will improve.
I'm already planning my Fall courses. I start with the syllabus. It's a question about how many rules I want to put in the syllabus. I hate to start the.
The question, dear Horatio, is how often do you change your course material? Textbooks come out with new editions seemingly every year (or bi-annually at the very least) but to those of us in the trenches, the ability to revisit our lesson plans is limited...
The old, dirty flatbed truck two vehicles ahead if me is loaded down with assorted shopping carts. Had I noticed, I would have gotten in the other lane; now, it's.
One of my little tricks of the trade is to get my students moving. I sprinkle activities throughout my course design that makes them get out of their chairs, walk.
I missed a deadline last week. I teach at ABC College, a proprietary school that is well-known for strict faculty grading deadlines, and I missed one. I was aware of what I was doing and was willing to accept the consequences. I had 48 hours...
Offices are important. An office is the college instructor's home away from home; in fact, the instructor often spends more time at the office than at home. Offices can indicate.
by Kat Kiefer-Newman It was bound to happen in one of my classes. I knew that sooner or later I would be confronted by the fanatical devotion fans have for.
Obviously, I'm not a person who likes to say "no" or I wouldn't be teaching for four colleges in four Michigan counties this semester. And no, this is not the first semester I can say that, either. But, I try to avoid some of the...
