What’s Your Favorite Depiction of Smoking?
April 7, 2022
I’m developing a class on the figure of smoking in literature, and I would like to hear what your favorite depictions are. … More What’s Your Favorite Depiction of Smoking?
Tag: Course Development
Writing a Syllabus that Respects Your Students
August 14, 2021
What if we thought about our syllabus as a form of communication instead of as a contract? … More Writing a Syllabus that Respects Your Students
Sustainability in the Victorianist Classroom
May 28, 2018
Studying ecocriticism with Victorians … More Sustainability in the Victorianist Classroom
Teaching with Storium: What is a Writing Class?
October 16, 2017
Do you remember your freshman year in college? What about your writing class? Were you annoyed that you had to even take a writing class? I mean, you already knew the 5-paragraph essay, so you were set, right? Or were you tired of talking about writing when you had come to practice medicine or start … More Teaching with Storium: What is a Writing Class?
Let’s Learn with Storium!
October 2, 2017
This post originally ran May 2, 2016, and now there’s more exciting news from Storium. StoriumEdu is about to start beta testing. Like the original storytelling platform, this version will be a collaborative storytelling experience where we can practice our writing skills together. On top of that, this one is designed for an educational environment. It’s … More Let’s Learn with Storium!
Multicultural Books Matter
March 15, 2017
Over at Scribbles on the Wall, Mariana Llanos has a great post about why we need more diversity in children’s literature. I don’t know much about that genre, but I know that this is something we struggle with when transforming literature courses to be more inclusive. For this campaign, I would like to offer an […]
Reading Fairy Tales as a Genre
December 15, 2016
Fairy tales aren’t easy. We might think through a Disney-induced cultural memory that we have a handle on the genre, but we aren’t the target audience. Some medieval romances were written for a courtly audience. I don’t know about you, but I’m not part of a court with its concerns and expected knowledge of participants. … More Reading Fairy Tales as a Genre
Playing with Genre
December 8, 2016
On Monday, we started talking about the nature of genre through the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin and how genres aren’t only what we read, but everything we write and speak too. Today, we’ll look at a way to help students practice writing in genres that they might not expect in the college classroom. Some of … More Playing with Genre
Teaching with Storium: What is a Writing Class?
September 1, 2016
Do you remember your freshman year in college? What about your writing class? Were you annoyed that you had to even take a writing class? I mean, you already knew the 5-paragraph essay, so you were set, right? Or were you tired of talking about writing when you had come to practice medicine or start … More Teaching with Storium: What is a Writing Class?
Master Yoda’s Pedagogy
May 4, 2016
With Teacher Appreciation Day and May the Fourth right next to each other, I thought we would celebrate one of the best pedagogues from a galaxy far, far away: Yoda. As a nerd and an educator, these are my two feast days. Yoda has been an educator for 800 years, so let’s see what we … More Master Yoda’s Pedagogy
The Golden Echo 