College Composition
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Making Learning Visible Reflection and Resources
For our team’s professional learning this summer, we read The Power of Making Learning Visible by Ron Ritchart and Mark Church, published in 2020. I liked the structure of the book, with each…
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Digital Ethics and ePortfolio
As our ePortfolio program grows, I am thinking more about resources to help students and faculty apply best practices and to better understand responsible web content development. As an English professor, I speak…
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Reflections on Delivery Methods in My Teaching
I have taught using a variety of models. As with many veteran teachers, most of my experience is in a traditional classroom, teaching face-to-face, also known as the “on ground” model. Although I…
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Teaching with Multimodal Sources
For much of my early teaching career, I did not engage with technology much. When I first started teaching, I taught in a public school that had 2 Mac desktops, and it seemed…
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Reflections on Teaching Metacognition
For professional development, my colleagues and I are reading McGuire’s Teach Students How to Learn, a book about strategies for helping students learn to be successful students. McGuire brings years of experience teaching…
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A Past Literacy
I became a certified SCUBA diver in 2002. For the next few years, I dove in several tropical locations, each time logging depths, calculating times, and noting interesting fish and marine life in…
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Creating the DH Landscape
At the conclusion of this term, I asked my composition students to share their thoughts on the most and least engaging reading, writing, and assignments in the class. These informal responses centered around…
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Exploring Bean
Exploratory writing about John Bean’s ideas on exploratory writing In my classes, exploratory writing has usually taken the form of a free write on the day I introduce a new topic or after…
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Data Visualization
My first thought on Matthew Booker’s article “Visualizing San Francisco Bay’s Forgotten Past” was, “That’s two questions and one metaphor.” With that said, I do like the metaphor. Booker’s article outlined the interesting geologic and historic history of…
