Office Hours For Spring Semester

Here are my office hours for the spring...

  • Monday: 1130am-1230pm Laurel Hall Work Rooms
  • Tuesday: 1130am-1230pm Parker 413B
  • Wednesday: 11am-12pm Laurel Hall Work Rooms
  • Thursday: 10am-11am Parker 413B
  • Friday: 11am-12pm Laurel Hall Work Rooms

Engaging Learners In The 21st Century: Tweeting Sociology: A Dynamic Approach To Teaching & Leartning

  • Showed how he uses Twitter with classes
  • Some in room don't use Twitter because they thought it was about "gossip"
  • Students reluctant at first, but then engaged on their own with prof and each other (I am sure that process will sound familiar to my students)
  • Tries to engage students in social consciousness via tweets and retweets
  • Need to remember not everyone has smart phone or web at home. Still access issues...which is why i don't require it
  • I have had students tweet their paper thesis. must narrow down until fits 140 characters

ThatCamp Philadelphia: Digital Humanities In The Classroom

The first session I attended at ThatCamp Philadelphia was on the digital humanities in the classroom. This was a great session that gave me a few ideas for my own classes.

  • Is WordPress good for archival or manuscript work? Maybe Omeka is better for that? There seem to be pretty significant differences between the hosted and non-hosted versions.
  • Someone mentioned making three minute “Ken Burns-y” videos with students.
  • Student created digital editions are a good thing to have on a CV. Could help with getting teaching or alt-ac job.
  • Loved the idea about students making timelines. We are trying that in my Shakespeare course with Dipity.
  • What do students need to learn besides WordPress to be effective and/or employable?
  • Suggestion to learn HTML and CSS.
  • Students should have project to create a website for future web presence.
  • I want to have students create websites to put online portfolios up, which could kickstart them to consider their web presence.
  • Putting work online forces students to consider audience.
  • Discussion of rewards during project as it goes instead of at end. I love this idea.
  • Student Writing Assessment: Did this project achieve what you set out to do?
  • Some discussion of Wikipedia projects, which I have done with mixed results in the past.
  • I brought up the shared Google Docs I use with my Literature classes.
  • How to deal with student concerns about online privacy.
  • Deal with privacy issues at beginning of project...make sure it is clear project will be public...should put this in syllabus
  • Students should consider general online presence and that future jobs will have some sort of online component.
  • Students should, with that said, be permitted to post anonymously. However, should also consider anonymous posting in regards to future CV/job stuff.
  • Good idea to have students search themselves online to see what their web presence is currently.

Shakespeare Podcast

This is the podcast my LIT220 students created at the end of the semester in the fall of 2013. We recorded each student reciting some lines from their favorite play and then I asked them a few questions about why they picked that particular set of lines to read. I was really impressed by what my students did in this course. We picked some difficult plays and had very productive discussions of them.