April 9, 2008I’ve felt like I’ve been almost frozen from doing work on the first two weeks of the English 101 course because I’ve felt overwhelmed by the task of writing on the theory behind HOW to compose. It’s not that I don’t know or couldn’t teach it, but it’s an awesome task that people write entire [...]
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March 17, 2008Ok so it’s spring break. I promised my grant supervisor that I would get a ton done these two weeks, and I am sure she’ll want to meet with me next week (we meet montly and haven’t in March). So what did we do? Well, Shelley and I met last week, and then I took [...]
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March 11, 2008We worked all day on the English 101 online curriculum, and we did make progress. Let’s see. First of all, I believe the required text will be: Latterel, C. G. (2006.) Remix reading and composing culture. Bedford St. Martin’s, New York. ISBN-10:0-312-43018-3. which upon initial review felt like a rhetorical reader to me, and, frankly, [...]
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March 8, 2008In part, podcasting and vidcasting is part of this week’s focus. My colleague Alisa Cooper must sit around making podcasts and blogs all day. She always seems to have podcasts ready for her classes, and I wonder how the English 101 course can implement casting. At minimum a podcast or vidcast should introduce each week’s [...]
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February 27, 2008It’s funny because I have this blog that is specifically for the development of my multimodal English 101 course, and then I have my regular technology ed blog here. So things overlap all of the time, and this time the post went there but please do check it out.
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February 26, 2008Tomorrow is my next meeting about English 101. Ugh. Tonight I was planning on working on reviewing this book we think we’ve chosen for the class, and I had these notes from my last session I planned on incorporating into the document I have shared with my instructor and grant liaison, but then I could [...]
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