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Truthiness and Consequences: Balancing the Content-Driven Rhetoric Classroom
Author: Aaron MercierImage Credit: Photo by Webrageous, Captions by Aaron MercierWhen I decided to make my rhetoric and writing course about “truthiness” as Stephen Colbert defines it—something that...
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Sourcing the Crowd to Talk About Audience
Author: Katherine CoxImage Credit: CalliopeThis semester I am teaching a class on the rhetoric of dotcoms with a focus on early-stage Internet companies. It has been a fun course to teach so far,...
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Finding the Sticking-Place: Take Up New Technologies and Unscrew the Cycle of...
Author: Steven J. LeMieuxImage Credit: Eventful RentalThere seems to be a tendency when teaching new technologies to slip into simply teaching the tools. When I’m gearing up to assign my students a...
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The Chicken In the Egg: Theme and Comp in the Truthy Classroom, Revisted
Author: Aaron MercierImage Credit: uggoyI want to revisit my post from last semester today, because it dealt with the lessons of grading the first major assignment in my first advanced composition...
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Administering What All Students Dread: Reading Quizzes
Author: Regina Marie MillsImage Credit: Melanie FejeranI have spent a lot of time this semester thinking about how to best encourage my students to do the reading, in addition to how to prep them for...
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Using Meditation in the (Digital) Classroom
Author: Jenn ShaplandImage Credit: David Lynch FoundationI decided to bring meditation practice into my Rhetoric and Writing class against the firm advice of nearly everyone I’d talked to about it....
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Collaboration and Chaos
Author: Cole WehrleImage Credit: Cole WehrleAs long as I’ve had the pleasure of teaching in one of the DWRL class rooms I’ve flirted with the idea of using Google Docs in a classroom setting. In-class...
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Technological Nostalgia and the Academic Year to Come
Author: Eric DetweilerImage Credit: Randall MunroeI feel so out of touch when it comes to video games.During my time in the Digital Writing and Research Lab, I've worked to incorporate new technologies...
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The Medium is the Mentor: How Failing With an LMS Altered My Teaching Ethos
Author: Casey SloanImage Credit: Ervins StrauhmanisIt took me a while to accept that I can never have all the answers. It took even longer for me to realize that this is a wonderful, fortunate fact. As...
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How to Outsource Your Grading and Look (and Feel) Good Doing It
Author: Beck WiseImage Credit: "Crowdsurfing at the Tocotronic show". Photo: daspunkt.Or, The Power of Crowdsourcing Assessment.Like a lot of instructors at UT, I have required presentations in my...
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Truthiness and Consequences: Balancing the Content-Driven Rhetoric Classroom
Author: Aaron MercierImage Credit: Photo by Webrageous, Captions by Aaron MercierWhen I decided to make my rhetoric and writing course about “truthiness” as Stephen Colbert defines it—something that...
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Finding the Sticking-Place: Take Up New Technologies and Unscrew the Cycle of...
Author: Steven J. LeMieuxImage Credit: Eventful RentalThere seems to be a tendency when teaching new technologies to slip into simply teaching the tools. When I’m gearing up to assign my students a...
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The Chicken In the Egg: Theme and Comp in the Truthy Classroom, Revisted
Author: Aaron MercierImage Credit: uggoyI want to revisit my post from last semester today, because it dealt with the lessons of grading the first major assignment in my first advanced composition...
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Administering What All Students Dread: Reading Quizzes
Author: Regina Marie MillsImage Credit: Melanie FejeranI have spent a lot of time this semester thinking about how to best encourage my students to do the reading, in addition to how to prep them for...
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Using Meditation in the (Digital) Classroom
Author: Jenn ShaplandImage Credit: David Lynch FoundationI decided to bring meditation practice into my Rhetoric and Writing class against the firm advice of nearly everyone I’d talked to about it....
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Collaboration and Chaos
Author: Cole WehrleImage Credit: Cole WehrleAs long as I’ve had the pleasure of teaching in one of the DWRL class rooms I’ve flirted with the idea of using Google Docs in a classroom setting. In-class...
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Technological Nostalgia and the Academic Year to Come
Author: Eric DetweilerImage Credit: Randall MunroeI feel so out of touch when it comes to video games.During my time in the Digital Writing and Research Lab, I've worked to incorporate new technologies...
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The Medium is the Mentor: How Failing With an LMS Altered My Teaching Ethos
Author: Casey SloanImage Credit: Ervins StrauhmanisIt took me a while to accept that I can never have all the answers. It took even longer for me to realize that this is a wonderful, fortunate fact. As...
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How to Outsource Your Grading and Look (and Feel) Good Doing It
Author: Beck WiseImage Credit: "Crowdsurfing at the Tocotronic show". Photo: daspunkt.Or, The Power of Crowdsourcing Assessment.Like a lot of instructors at UT, I have required presentations in my...
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