This is a sample first post for a course blog.  Take 3-5 minutes to poke around the website/blog, and please comment on its usability. Are you able to find things like the syllabus and assignments?  What would you like to find, but can’t? There are lots of ways you might use a blog as part of […]

Tonya Shearin-Patterson wrote a new blog post: My Commenting Approach to Student Writing %s

I didn’t realize how my comments may be perceived by my students.  I try not to write harsch comments, although I admit getting more frustrating as the grading process goes on.  According to the readings, Bean states that many Professors and teachers grade in the wee hours of the night when they are weary and […]

Tonya Shearin-Patterson wrote a new blog post: Journal Article: Innate Immunity and Inflammatory Mediators %s

This article is from the “Advance for Laboratory Professionals ” magazine.  I chose it because I needed it for continuing education credits and I teach Immunoserology which is a subject covering immunity and the tests used  to identify antigen-antibody interactions.  I though it was a nice snap shot of  all the major factors involved in […]

Tonya Shearin-Patterson wrote a new blog post: Integrating Writing and Learning inYour Course Design %s

I found chapter 1 of this book interesting in that the authors decribe (traditional) college instructors and professors as people who deliver content and how we think of our courses as a “body of subject matter”.  Those of us unfamiliar with teaching writing intensive courses tend to assign writing assignments as separate from the class […]

Tonya Shearin-Patterson wrote a new blog post: Response to “The Politics of Remediation” %s

When I first started reading Chap 14 I panicked: there was a poem and one that I just didn’t get. I never liked studying poetry because I never really understood what the author was trying to say. As I continued to read I was able to follow the purpose of the discussion on […]