Teaching Tip #6: Losing Time, Finding Creativity

So, looking at your syllabus right now, you may be shaking your head and wondering how in the world you are going to “make up” for lost class time.   Important concepts still need to be explored, tests given, papers written and chapters read.  How can we make lemonade from this lemon of a winter? I [...]

Champion of Techno-revolution Sees Web Bringing Culture to Kitchen Table

In “Three Tweets for the Web,” GMU economics professor Tyler Cowen argues that the decline of the book does not spell the end of literacy.  It’s just “part of a broader shift toward short and to the point.” Cowen pooh-poohs the assumption that reliance on the Web is shortening attention spans; he sees it as [...]

Feel like Surfing?

Yeah, it’s Friday so I’m thinking about the beach. Not really. But it is a good time to surf around on the web and call it work. One great place to land? ProfHacker, featuring “Tips and Tutorials for Higher Ed” I’ll post the link in our links section, but here it is now if you’re [...]

Thinking about Using a Wiki in Class?

According to Wikipedia, a wiki is an easily created and edited Web site that lends itself to collaborative writing projects.  (Wikipedia is itself a wiki.) But as Michelle Navarre Cleary, Suzanne Sanders-Betzold, Polly Hoover, and Peggy St. John point out in “Working with Wikis in Writing-Intensive Classes,” composition scholarship on wiki effectiveness has been sketchy [...]

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Instead of publishing our usual newsletter, the CTE and DISCOVER programs have decided to enter the world of blogging.  We will be posting news, updates, links and items of interest here regularly.   We also hope you will comment on what we post, to generate some real dialogue on what we are all trying to accomplish [...]