Shelley & I got together at Paradise Bakery yesterday to work on our English 101 course. I was mildly excited since it’d been more than a month since we could really discuss it. The afternoon revolved around a couple of things. First, we tried to use Acrobat Buzzword, which is Adobe’s answer to Google Docs, [...]

Posted in eng101, grading, web2.0

Last night I was grading and went to refresh Google docs. Suddenly everything looked a little different, and I suddenly realized they made a format change that gave me several options I’d been praying for before bed for months. Where to begin?
Page breaks - Google docs now let’s the user set his or her own [...]

Posted in eng101, gadgets, google docs, online, technology, tutorials

Earlier today I had a meeting at MCC about a multimodal English 101 course I am developing, and we’re building this course specifically in Web 2.0. This is a Freshman Composition course… not necessarily a writing course. It doesn’t say it’s a writing course, and even though we will write in the class, it’s more [...]

Posted in cis237, eng101, essays, rhetoric, web2.0

I have a new post over here on online communication in the 21st century. Check it out.

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Posted in blogs, cis237, curriculum, eng101, student2.0, teacher2.0, technology

The other evening I participated in a monthly Cyber Salon, which is a group of like minded technophiles who teach in secondary schools and higher education. This meeting held up north included Alan, Shelley, Biray, Alisa and me. I walked into this swanky sports grill after 5pm on a Friday to find these four with [...]

Posted in eng101, student2.0, technology, web2.0, writing