I’m 700 miles into the Appalachian Trail (you can catch up on the journey here, here and here), and this year I’ve found some truly wonderful friends that have … Read More ›
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In the first week of May, a Walden park ranger confirmed over the phone that the birds had arrived and there were leaves on the … Read More ›
A Project in the Making The Walden Soundscape is a project funded by a Graduate Center Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant. It’s my effort to share the … Read More ›
Silence was the thing I used to fear most as an English teacher: the discussion falls flat, none of the students do the reading, or … Read More ›
This is a story for the frustrated College Writing student, the slow reader, the one who thinks she’s bad at writing because she ever struggles and … Read More ›
“The vast majority of our professors…used the classroom to enact rituals of control that were about domination and the unjust exercise of power. In these … Read More ›
We the Humanities is a rotation-curation project that I first heard about on Twitter from Krissie West, one of the project’s founders. Basically, each week … Read More ›
Just last week I put together an assignment to have students collaboratively take notes in class. This assignment stems from advice I received from three … Read More ›
In my second-level composition course, students have the option of doing extra credit, due the day we finish reading Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. … Read More ›
I use twitter in my classroom to give more introverted students opportunities to participate without having to raise their hands and speak out. It isn’t … Read More ›
