I’ve been interested in Jeff Rice’s posts this week in which he critiques some Rutgers videos on their composition program. What strikes me most is just the sad fact that the two-year colleges in my area, not just mine but others as well, are not even in this conversation. Jeff is contributing to a national [...]

I’ve been asked to give a 45 minute talk next week on the iPad in education. I have about 30 seconds worth of stuff to say on that, so it occurs to me that I might need to devote some time today to thinking about it. I’ve been reading some of Steven Krause’s posts about [...]

A friend sent this link today about a proposed bill to regulate textbook costs for college students: “Lawmakers push for open online textbooks” I’m not sure the bill actually does have anything to do with open online textbooks. That seems more of an afterthought proposed as a possible solution by the author of the article [...]

Don’t ask me why. I don’t know why exactly. But this morning I posted on my Journally Facebook page that I would be posting writing prompts for teachers for the next couple of weeks…unless, of course, I decide to quit before that time. Today’s prompt is “This year, I declare myself free to…” Here’s my [...]

Voice in the Age of the Web The intended audience for this is students, mainly my students in ENG 1123 (Composition II). I’ve decided to to Scribd because that gives the students more versatility in how they might access it than posting it directly into Blackboard would. I can embed it into Blackboard the same [...]