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Teaching in A Company Town of Dreams

By Dorinda Fox Orlando was once a company town and the company was Disney. The success of the Disney theme parks and hotels begat more theme parks and hotels. Nowadays, it would be more accurate to describe Orlando as a theme park industry town. It...

When Online Students "Self-Advise," It's Up to The Instructor To Help

By Rich Russell It's beginning to look a lot like registration! I can tell by the long lines of students waiting to meet with academic advisers, or else camped outside.

Dignity be Damned: On Halloween & Other Scary Things in the College Classroom

By Kat Kiefer-Newman Halloween. This really doesn't matter much in the college classroom, I know; except when it does (like if class falls on Halloween, or the day after Halloween,.

Showing vs. Telling: Twilight Invades My Writing Class

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 the Twilight books and movies. Twilight, for the three people in the United States who...