From the dissertation blog:
At the conclusion of grading each semester, I review the success of self-assessment (and, if applicable, self-evaluation/grading) in the course(s) I teach.
This semester I taught English 502 (2nd-year Intro to Tech Writing). 17 students. This course was roughly a 3 on my 5-point scale of self-assessment (or maybe a 3.5): students submitted [...]
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Review
December 19th, 2007 · No Comments ·
Timbers: as of now, officially shivered
September 19th, 2007 · No Comments ·
Avast! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day September 19th! Ye can be bettin’ yer last doubloon that I’ll be exercisin’ me piratical diction in class this mornin’ (though I’ll have to revert to landlubber-speak eventually, given that it would take a long time to explain résumés and application letters while in full Geoffrey [...]
Dubbing
November 26th, 2006 · 12 Comments ·
Next semester, in Creative Nonfiction, I’d like to work with my students to create an online creative nonfiction magazine, starting with blogs in Wordpress Multiuser and eventually transitioning into a blog/magazine hybrid format.
Now, I tried this whole online magazine thing once before, and it didn’t work quite as well as I wanted, due to admittedly [...]