I was reading a chapter on “Creating an Effective Online Syllabus” recently and found some good information that I guess I’ve not really considered. Some of it feels like common sense, but some of it just gets missed by anyone who teaches online. Sign posts included in this article are “the contract”, “the map”, and [...]

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I’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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This week I am working on two things really albeit some of what I saw may sound repetitive, I really am working! I know we as educators always knew this, but it sounds kind of funny to say it now: I am not reinventing the wheel. See I am getting paid to develop this [...]

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Ok ok I’ve been completely overwhelmed by all of this, and I also didn’t realize how draining it is to build all of this. I know I could do it simpler, but forget that. It’s gotta be right if we’re sharing it with our community, and I don’t do anything half assed. Forget it. So [...]

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Ok 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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We 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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In 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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It’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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Tomorrow 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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Today Shelley and I spent a couple hours fishing through theory, trying to build application and keeping the luddites in mind for our English 102 course build. We’ve spent almost two weeks searching for the perfect text book, but a lot of these reps don’t seem to understand “multimodal” or “Web 2.0″. They want to [...]

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