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Rhetoric RSS Feeds26 out of 27 FYW students unfamiliar with lolcats - I had a point to make to my students about wharrgarbls today in class, and I learned that only one student in the class knew what a lolcat was, even after that student and I described what they were. I assumed that most of them wouldn't know, but I did think maybe three to five of them would. I posted this on Facebook and am getting some surprised reactions. ...Feed Source: kairosnews.org Literary Fun with Google Instant and Google Scribe -
I just saw this hilarious post on the NYT website about using (or perhaps abusing) Google Instant and Google Scribe to do some hilarious revisions of famous movie quotes and song lyrics, such as "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to print a document." I tried Scribe myself to create a definition of rhetoric:
Rhetoric: A Theory of Justice and the Police Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Hmm
... Facebook = Failing Grades -
Bouncing off Charlie's earlier post A new study is showing that students who use Facebook during studytime (even if it's just on in the background) get 20% lower grades than their wow like totally uncool classmates. Many of the students deny that it really has an effect on their concentration, but I think they should probably be docked another 20% for thinking that. I realized early on that any synchronous or auto-updating tool was a huge distraction, which is why I never use instant messenging services or leave anything running in the background while I work. At any rate, it's probably worth passing this on to students (yeah, right).
... Leadership in the Classroom -
Teachers need to create positive relationships with their students regardless of what level of education is being taught. The relationships that are created are not the same as friendships. Clearly, teachers should not befriend their students. There is a fine line that a teacher walks; one in which they are relatable without trying too hard to act as their students act.
Teacher-student relationships require mutual respect, clear expectations, communication, and kindness. Kindness and a calm demeanor shown by the teacher creates a positive classroom environment in which learning can freely occur. Even when laying down ground rules at the beginning of the year; communication can be clear and concise without being condescending.
As a teacher, you are not a babysitter. You are the leader of your classroom and as such, you probably already have an idea of how you would like your classroom to operate. The role you play is... Dr Hairy in: Frank Talking (Part 1) -
The fifth in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy is advised to try a bit of straight talking with one of his patients - with hilarious results! The first of three parts.
To view it on my site, go to http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/franktalking1.mov ; or you can see it on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwCH31cRCw ; or it should be on DVblog (http://dvblog.org) in the next couple of weeks.
- Edward Picot
... The Latest Stay-in-School Tool for College Students: Facebook -
From the Chronicle,
In a survey of 375 randomly selected students at Abilene Christian University, those who were more active on the social network were likelier to return for their sophomore year. On average, returning sophomores had 27 more friends and 59 more wall posts than did students who didn't return.
So all that time in class that student are using Facebook, well, that's increasing the likelihood that they will stay at our university? Maybe we need to have Facebook time in class for freshmen :-)
... A Model for Open Textbook Sustainability -
I've been thinking a lot about David Porter's post, Nowhere Near Critical Mass, and OER sustainability. David makes a strong point,
. . . my belief was that it would take actual teachers, instructors and students who could demonstrate success in an OER context to bring consolidation and sustainability to the goals of the open movement. Further, it seemed that little real effort was occurring on the inclusion or promotion of teachers and teaching, and that OpenEd conferences continued to be conversations within an insular community of theorists and advocates – not the stuff of implementation, nor a demonstration of broad impact.
I don't want to try to speak about OER in general, but when it comes to open textbook production, I agree with David. For the open textbook movement to become successful, it needs to go outside the innovators who began it, ... Craigslist Censors Adult Postings -
I just read that Craigslist has, at least temporarily, suspended its highly profitable adult services postings. Now users trying to access those links will find a censored notification. Unfortunately for Craigslist's founders, that is precisely the part of the site that was drawing a huge amount of revenue. While I'm certainly not opposed to this action, it is hard to fight the impression that it's one more step towards fencing in the wild wild web.
... Generation "Born into Web 2.0" Characteristics -
I'd thought I'd throw out some characteristics of my son's generation rather than wait for ten years or so to see how they represent themselves in a Pew and American Life study. He's almost eleven years old. His is the generation that was born into Web 2.0 and other advanced digital technology. I know this isn't true for all kids his age (and it may be more true for boys--I don't know), but it's fun to imagine:
Many of them would rather take videos than still pictures.
They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has put up a video on YouTube.
They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has been in a YouTube video.
They have their own computer, or at least one that is shared with siblings and not the adults in the family.
They share websites and videos they find on the Internet.
They have email accounts and send and receive email on occassi... Job Announcement: Tenure Track Asst. Prof. of Creative Writing -
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing:
Position Description. Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Writing and Linguistics, the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing position requires teaching, service, and research responsibilities and a terminal degree. The successful candidate will teach 3 courses per semester with primary assignment in multi-genre and single-genre Creative Writing courses. The position is a 9-month, tenure-track appointment, and the salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Required Qualifications:
• M.F.A. or Ph.D. with creative dissertation by August 1, 2011
• Publication in nationally recognized journals or presses
•&n... More from the childhood archives - My favorite things and my hobbies/pets circa second grade:
... Fraser's "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History" - From Nancy Fraser's article "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History" (NLR Mar/Apr 2009, p. 114, my emphasis):
[Feminism works as] a general discursive construct which feminists [as participants in a social movement] no longer own and do not control -- an empty signifier of the good (akin, perhaps, to 'democracy'), which can and will be invoked to legitimate a variety of different scenarios, not all of which promote gender justice. An offspring of feminism in the first, social-movement sense, this second, discursive sense of 'feminism' has gone rogue. As the discourse becomes independent of the movement, the latter is increasingly confronted with a strange shadowy version of itself, an uncanny double that it can neither simply embrace nor wholly disavow. [ ] This formula of 'feminism and its doubles' could be elaborated to good effect with respect to the 2008 US Presidential election, where the uncanny doubles included both Hill... First-Year Writing Files - This is just a collection of links to files associated with my administration of my university's first-year writing program. I may add files here later:
Instructor Manual
Syllabus for English 509: this is my syllabus for the teacher-training course I'm teaching this fall. Our program requires two pedagogy courses, one that leans toward the theory end and another that leans toward practice; this is the latter.
English 101 ... My would-be GraphJam submission -
... On the candy, of course. -
^clicking image goes to larger version. I estimate that I wrote this obtuse little story sometime around third grade.
... Teaching 101 This Fall - I've been off-and-on planning my English 101 class this fall. We have just made some biggish changes to our writing curriculum -- different textbooks and somewhat different assignments -- and I wanted to be sure to teach 101 so that I'll get this new curriculum internalized and have a solid understanding of how our students respond to it.
The book I'll be using for 101 is Writing Arguments, you know, the one by Ramage, Bean, and Johnson. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to use anything from Writing Spaces as well, and if so, which essays. I'm thinking about What Is Academic Writing, I Need You to Say ?I?: Why First Person is Important in College Writing, and So You've Got a Writing Assignment. Now What?.... THERE'S the ball! - My little guy:
He loves to tell everyone where the location of a ball is. When I take him to any kind of store, he hollers "THERE'S the ball!" whenever he sees something spherical (fruits in the produce section, Easter eggs, anyt... One Room a Day - I've said this before, but I read a lot of productivity blogs wherein the writers strategize about bringing order to chaos, moving projects forward, that kind of thing. On one of them, I read about a "one room a day" approach to cleaning. The idea is that you do whatever basic subsistence-level cleaning needs to be done (dishes, laundry, cleaning up spills and Goldfish cracker crumbs, etc.), then you focus on deep-cleaning one room for about 15-20 minutes. Here's what we're doing:
Monday, kitchen
Tuesday, bathrooms
Wednesday, bedrooms
Thursday, living room
Friday, garage and cars
Saturday, dining room
Sunday, hallways and laundry room
I'm very happy with how it's working so far; I just hope we can keep it up. I'm much less stressed in a clean house.
... Little Sister! - Our son Henry now has a little sister, Clara. Eight pounds zero ounces, nineteen inches, score of nine on both Apgars. Born via scheduled c-section, a decision I may or may not write more about later. And she's wonderful, but of course I would say that! Many adorable pictures here.
... Am I an Expressivist? - I've always thought that no, I'm really not an expressivist. I'm much more interested in assigning research-based argument writing in my classes than I am in assigning personal narratives or personal essays. That being said, it isn't as though those genres are mutually exclusive, obviously. Here's where I stand now:
In my own experience having written a whole lot of different texts for academic audiences, the response to what I write is overwhelmingly more positive when I make it personal and accessible -- chatty, even -- than when I write a paper that more closely resembles the IMRAD tone and structure. I've also noticed that for academic lectures, not just ones I've given but ones I've attended, audience response is much more positive when a speaker tells stories along with presenting information and argument. ... Copyright © 2010, FreeMailingListInformation.com. All Rights Reserved. |