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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