Tag: teaching

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| November 9, 2010

more changes

Speaking of personal vacillation and changeableness, remember how I returned my iPad? Yeah, well, I got another one,...

| September 14, 2010

DFW as teacher

The teaching materials now online at the Ransom Center are pretty darn fascinating.

| July 28, 2010

assignment bleg

So, in the next few days I’m going to be working on my syllabi for the upcoming semester. One of my classes is...

| October 13, 2009

about close reading

I don’t think this post by Alex Reid is on the right track: Close reading, if you don’t know, comes out the...

| July 22, 2009

the art of the handout

This fits with what I hear from students all the time: A study published in the April issue of British Educational...

| June 16, 2009

cheaters!

When I was a kid I didn't really dislike brushing my teeth, but sometimes that was just one too many things to do....

| April 24, 2009

discriminations

About ten years ago James O’Donnell published a provocative book called Avatars of the Word: from Papyrus to...

| April 14, 2009

the production line

Mark Bauerlein of Emory University is concerned about the “production line” of little-read and...