Looks like the students had a good time with these websites. Oh, for those days to read, discuss, and explore. I’ll sign up for the course. Now for the teaching that goes into these two deliverables. As we muddle through gen-edding our work for the fall, we could benefit to see these websites in context. […]

Let’s tread cautiously here. One word: Weinergate.

Nine things Weinergate tells us:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/03/weinergate.twitter.insights/

A link to the Library’s Chicago Manual of Style. (I don’t know if that can be open sourced.) Urban Dictionary. Dictionary. com or any of the available dictionary sites. Google dictionaries. I’d put the selection up to the group or to a wise referencarian. (That means reference person–I wanted to make up a word. chagrin.) […]

I would vote to put comments/posts in descending order: Most recent on top. Too much scrolling to find out what’s new.

And what do y’all think?

In reply to my previous post with the question on grammar, “it’s between me and the student, or is that ‘between the student and I’” ; could we have links to dictionaries, thesaurus, and grammar and style books?

And a really good spell and grammar check would reinforce good writing habits.

I’ve set up individual digital learning logs for each of my students in Developmental Writing. These are private and sometimes very personal. I incorporate a template with questions/prompts that students follow. Students are encouraged to upload pictures, write reflections, ask for help. It’s sort of like each student’s own blog, but it’s between…[Read more]

As far as I can figure out, Questions/Suggestions/Discussion does not have a reply or comment box so I’m coming here. Question: Is there any address book for user’s name available when sending a message? How are we supposed to know the user’s name? (It’s easier, of course, when the addressee is a “friend.”) Question: Now […]

Please explain “the Openlab” and “For the Openlab Project.” Doesn’t each one of us create an individual blog that’s course specific? What do you envision is the synergy among each of these blogs that we want to generate? In the old days we used to talk about the cybernetic perspective of the system. However it’s […]

“outliens” should be “outlines” (Can’t I edit my own posts?)

What’s there to question? Of course drawing is part of gen ed. It should be part of education, generally. Drawing, whether a formal product or a sketch as a means to an end, can be a way of knowing/thinking. I’ll give a couple examples. Fellini storyboarded his movies before they went to script. (He once […]

I like the last point, “a short wrap up and lunch.” As opposed to the wrap ups we’ve eaten for lunch? (I can’t help it, my inner fifth-grader comes out when I have a chance to play with words. I can be such a smart ass-essment.) For lunch, hmmm. . . what about the fat […]

Jonas, since you thanked me in print, the least I can do is try to appeal to your mathematical sensibilities. First (1), we might want to think of a replacement set for {manifesto}. Perhaps we could use either {personifesto} or {humanifesto}. Either term provides a necessary and sufficient condition for gender-neutral language, which in turn […]

The University, the classroom itself, must be a safe space. I feel strongly that the classroom should be safe to fail. We learn from failure, but students want a linear path from concept to done deal. (Don’t we all.) As a writer most of my work is failure (throw away, rewrite) all the way up […]

BTW: Cut and paste the link. Linking is beyond my capacity tonight.

DEVELOPMENTAL ED/GENERAL ED/ A LIVING LABORATORY AND MY WEB LOG (Thanks, Jonas, for letting me segue into my concerns du jour) Before I dive into the blogosphere, I have a couple questions. What is the synergy of these blogs? What do we foresee as the interaction of these blogs among us fellows? How are these […]