A few weeks ago I raised the question of whether the institutions could work together to improve the synergy between English departments in college and secondary education. Even though this week’s readings were supposed to shed light on this, most … Continue reading →

While reading these articles and reflecting on my experience as a high school student in AP English classes, I cannot help but feel the same anxiety that, I myself, now inflict on my students. The same pressure I felt to … Continue reading →

Addison and McGee in Addison, “Writing in High School/Writing in College. Research Trends and Future Directions” remind us that high stake testing is driving k-12 instruction.  (152)  This obviously translates to writing assignments of shorter length since standardized testing is limited … Continue reading →

After class, I remember a game my friend who teaches high school uses all the time. Kahoot allows you to create an online quiz, and when you hit play, it gives you a code that people can enter to play.  So, they … Continue reading →

Writing experience rubric Snapchat play pedagogy design pedagogy pecha kucha Blogging: Jason’s article Twitter: http://introtfw.weebly.com/twitter.html Shared Writing Spaces: http://www.sbu.edu/academics/schools/arts-and-sciences/departments-majors-minors/english/composition-program/resources-for-instructors/digital-writing-assignments/collaborative-social-and-multimedia-writing Infographics: https://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/2016/07/29/cool-tools-piktochart/ Multimedia composing: http://www.sbu.edu/academics/schools/arts-and-sciences/departments-majors-minors/english/composition-program/resources-for-instructors/digital-writing-assignments/a-v-club Gaming: http://www.sbu.edu/academics/schools/arts-and-sciences/departments-majors-minors/english/composition-program/resources-for-instructors/digital-writing-assignments/games-and-procedural-rhetoric Sound mapping: https://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/2016/10/19/mapping-sound/ Digital Writing and Research Lab (UT Austin): https://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/category/assignments/ Digital Media Project: (Ohio State): http://dmp.osu.edu/

Teaching to the Text Message (Sophie’s post) There were two strains of thought in Selsberg’s NYT op-ed that I want to pull out: the impact of concise writing on the student, and its impact on the teacher. The impact on … Continue reading →

As a life long gamer,  the debate on whether or not video games are a serious art form worthy of study or just “mindless play” is something I’ve given a lot of thought to. James Gee’s What Video Games Have to … Continue reading →

Lots on our plate – having majored in IT in High School (yes, we pick a specialization when we are fourteen in Italy) this week’s topics particularly resonated with me. Let me begin by expressing my surprise in reading how … Continue reading →

While reading “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences,” I realized that I am absolutely guilty of patchwriting, probably as recently as my blog posts for this class. I definitely patchwrote as an undergraduate, and I felt at least somewhat comforted, … Continue reading →

In the NCTE piece, the writer quotes Michael Day of Northern Illinois University: “Many of our students are first-generation college students and are somewhat clueless about plagiarism and intellectual property issues. Still others have been raised in the era of … Continue reading →