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Motivating Improvement (Part Two of Two): Getting First Year Writers to Recognize the Need for Improvement »

In my last post, I was talking about the changes I have made to motivate my students to speak with our Writing Consultants about their essays. I wanted to come back and reflect on how I have changed their relationship with the Writing Center through my own relationship with the Writing Center.
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Motivating Improvement (Part One of Two): Getting First Year Writers to Recognize the Need for Improvement »

When I first stepped into the classroom this morning, one of my students told me that she had completely scrapped an essay draft after her visit to the Writing Center yesterday. This was wholly her decision, although one supported by her Writing Consultant. She came in with a draft she was much happier with and [...]

I Get to Experiment with PikiWiki! »

If you’ll recall, a few weeks ago I wrote about the potential to use Pikiwiki with group projects and later I mentioned that one of my students had made her own PikiWiki page. Well, Since then, I’ve had a few more students play around with this site on their own. One student not only created [...]

Course Management Software or Wiki? I’m Ready to Take the Plunge »

Course management software bothers me. It finalizes my teaching in a Bakhtinian way. Essentially, it tells me that I have to be able to categorize my material into specific areas. If I can’t fit my material into these specific areas, then I have to use a link. End of statement. Even worse, though, is the [...]

Improving Ed-Tech with Student-Teacher Collaboration »

The first day of class is always fun for me. I get to meet a new group of students with the potential to do awesome work. I get to start over again with my syllabus, my pedagogy, or any aspect of my teaching that I want to start over with. Students don’t always feel the [...]