teaching

This week I'll be participating in a panel at the American Studies Association annual convention that will address digital scholarship, pedagogy, and publication ... and I'd love your input. Comment on my blog or take a quick survey to add your insights to our discussion on Friday, Oct 17.

 

Following up on Cathy's course description, I thought I'd post information about the courses I'm teaching this semester and next.

From Saturday March 29 to Friday April 4, Classroom 2.0 is hosting a series of "live" web conversations, including on teaching content with current events, Web 2.0 for Beginners, how to set up your own Ning network, and open source. You're invited!

Instead of seeing "teaching" as the polar opposite of "research," we should be thinking of our classrooms as the place to test out all of the skills necessary to translate research into scholarship. Isaac de Waal says teaching is what makes us distinctively human. Why not consider that complex, interactive act as the theoretical grounding for all communication?

Michael J. Bugeja has written a provocative piece on professors who require student participation in Second Life, even though Linden Labs refuses to take responsibility for harassing behavior that may happen in SL. If they are not responsible, is the professor? The institution?

Finally, someone is paying attention to the teacher shortage. It's like the crisis in the insurance industry---all the signs were there, all the bad tendencies, why did it take a crisis of this proportion before anyone started paying attention?