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I just lost a 300-word blog on this article while attempting to download some movie recording software. The following is an attempt to recall my observations about the article.Pierce and Eno's article greatly enhanced my understanding of university level technical/professional/new media curricula a at the. Since that's our class goal this semester ...

...for not blogging in so long. It's not true. I blog on my band's web site and my personal web site, which do not necessarily contribute to my academic career, but do reflect my personal ambitions, observations, and hypotheses.  I didn't blog on the readings from last week because I've spent the last week moving from North Dale Mabry onto ...

So it's the end of the term and we have learned about several pedagogies for teaching writing.  Strange enough (or is it?) every one we have read can be applied to our program and how we teach.  However, aren't we supposed to have favorites so that when we are interviewed for other collegiate teaching positions we can sound smart and ...

I haven't had such a problem with blogs through the semester in terms of students doing them, most of them do.  However, I have had several complaints from students that they don't enjoy them.  I have put it to survey and though greatly about this assignment:  I think the biggest problem is that they are blogging, but then they ...

The essay on datagogy suggests that this pedagogy is empowered by “the wisdom of crowds”--the creative power of individuals working collaboratively in a climate that respects difference and dissensus, and that one way our program is supporting this is through blogging, or even class discussions.  The power of the blog is that a person's ...

Fiona Paton's essay ''Approaches to Productive Peer Review'' was very helpful and full of great advice, and like she said in her introduction, it would have been nice to have this introduction to Peer Review at the beginning of the semester!  Her essay is split into three parts: Introducing Peer Review, Setting Up Peer Review, and Maintaining ...

For my Studies in Composition course, I am presenting on a chapter in Joseph Harris' A Teaching Subject.  One tiny passage in Chapter 5 struck me greatly, reminding me of our (the new instructors in FYC) first week in training to teach at USF.  Here's the passage:       ''One result of this has been a view of ...

When reading Susan Jarratt's essay ''Feminist Pedagogy,'' I was struck by her passage on the effects of this pedagogy on the writing process in composition teaching.  Jarratt discusses the old mode of patriarchical teaching in composition as that of ''making assignments, waiting for a product, and then judging its value'' ...

We have a wonderful portfolio tool in Blackboard, which makes it very simple to create; your finished product looks pretty professional.  But we also have this wonderful tool of wikis, which seems to me to be a limitless way to do portfolios.  The Blackboard tool has limits in the way you design your portfolio, and design can really ...

In Erika Lindemann's book, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, portfolios are discuss in Chapter 14: Responding to Student Writing.  She devotes only two full pages to portfolios, but gives some great advice and reasoning behind the use of portfolios.  Portfolios are discussed under the heading of ''Handling the Paper Load,'' and this is ...