Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

Thursday’s New York Times ran an editorial on standardized testing that demands some attention. They are calling for stronger curriculums in high schools and more focused standardized testing to demonstrate accomplishment in these areas. Just last month, the NY Times ran another article exposing the coaching of students that some schools do before their tests. [...]

Last spring, there was a buzz in the air about the potential for standardized tests being used in our state colleges as an assesment of our programs. Personally, I hate standardized tests–I took them countless times throughout my primary school days (it seems we were always lucky enough to have the military move us just [...]

Over the past eight weeks, I’ve been teaching two sections of Basic Writing with about 30 students between the two classes. I’ve thinned out those numbers now. Sure, I forced their hand a bit, but there are things that I feel need to be made crystal clear to students early on in their college career. [...]

As of the beginning of this week, I had just about had it with the majority of my students. I was just about to give up on them. Why? Well, it has to do with personality. Since I haven’t discussed these students before, let me give you a brief portrait of the things that I’m [...]

It has been almost a year now since I made my first presentation on blogging in the classroom. As I prepared for this presentation, I had several of my own professors telling me what a wonderful idea this was, how “new” and “innovative” it was, and that I was “on to something.” Now, before I [...]