By Katt on Apr 7, 2008 in Pedagogy | 2 Comments
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 [...]
By Katt on Apr 2, 2008 in Pedagogy, theapple.com | 0 Comments
I teach my students the importance of collaboration to their further studies. I teach them this because I know how much collaboration has aided me in continuing my education, but I also know how much collaboration is involved when working in the “real world.” But I also stress to them the differences between cheating [...]
By Katt on Mar 28, 2008 in My dissertation, Research Endeavors | 0 Comments
I have said multiple times and to multiple people that I want to write my dissertation on the use of social media in education. The past few weeks may have changed all of that in a big way. Before I get to the core of this post, I want to take a few minutes and [...]
By Katt on Mar 24, 2008 in Engaging Students, Hows and Whys, technology | 2 Comments
I’ve wrestled with whether to post this now and add an additional post once the class has finished with the unit, or to wait and do all of this together. I decided to go with the first option for two reasons. First, I can lay out the pedagogical idea I had that led to using [...]