- How to bridge gaps between the two required composition courses here at BCC.
- How to deal with differences between hypothesis and thesis?
- How to deal with creative students versus those who need more formal training?
- Differences between peer review via wikis versus Google Drive.
- Reader versus writer based feedback.
- Peer review speed dating.
- Class size is a concern for face to face versus digital peer review.
- Bias versus agenda in secondary sources.
- How do we teach what is RIGHT about a source?
ThatCamp Community College: The Key Technological Needs Of Community College Students
I will have a larger overview post up later when I have more time, but here are my notes from the first session at our first ThatCamp here at BCC:
- How does texting in classroom change pedagogy?
- How much of technological consumption is passive versus active? How does that change how students engage?
- Should there be questions about the infallibility of the databases we expect our students to use?
- Students need to know how to make a basic MLA paper template.
- They also need to know how to backup their work. Where is that taught?
- Should the MLA template be submitted and assessed? (This is a great idea)
- What about accessibility issues?
- Students need to know what a URL is!
- There needs to be a logic to file naming for both professor and student.
Podcast #10
This is the podcast of my second publication for The Quarterly Conversation. This essay focused on Shelley Jackson's work. A lot of it was deleted stuff from my MA thesis.
Podcast #9
This was my first publication for The Quarterly Conversation about, generally, an overview of electronic literature. I have always been so proud to have published in TQC and look forward to doing so again.
Books Read In 2013
- Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
- For Love Of Evil by Piers Anthony
- Amulet by Roberto Bolano
- Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks
- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Homeland by Cory Doctorow
- Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
- Falling Man by Don Delillo
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Carolyn Maddux
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
- And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life by Charles Shields
- Freedom by Daniel Suarez
- Kill Decision by Daniel Duarez
- In Defense of Terror: Liberty or Death in The French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich
- The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- Conversations With David Foster Wallace
- Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner
- Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities Anthology
Podcast #8
Here is the audio from my lecture for our Center For Learning and Instruction on working with students who have low technology skills. This is from the spring of 2012.
Podcast #7
Here is a reading of my first symposium presentation while at Monmouth. The genesis of my MA thesis is in here somewhere.