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Reflections on iGen
I first encountered Jean Twenge’s research in her 2017 Atlantic article “Has the Smart Phone Destroyed a Generation?” and soon incorporated it into my English 110 class as a reading connected to my…
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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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Faculty Learning Community
As an activity for the 2020 ePortfolio Faculty Learning Community that I am facilitating, I will be posting responses and reflections. Our goal is to learn about high-impact ePortfolio practice at UNE and…
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Coordinating for DigiSpace
As I think about my role as the DigiSpace Coordinator, I am continually grateful for my consultants and their dedication as learners. I expect professionalism and a growth mindset, and in return, I…
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Professional Development Day, January 2020
My current role encompasses that of a supervisor and a program developer, so I have tried to balance my professional development to improve in as many areas as possible. I have read some…
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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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Reflection and Research on ePortfolio
For me, summer allows for some time to read and reflect on the previous year as I think about the up-coming academic year. This summer, I have high expectations for my work-related summer…
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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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