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Metaphor or Reality? Class as Game
I have been pondering the idea of the classroom as a game (or a class as a game) for quite a while. This last Christmas my husband purchased a book for me on a class that was the game– The Multiplayer...
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View ArticleWhat I am Doing Over the Holidays: Textbook Writing
I am working on a textbook to be used NEXT SEMESTER in the classroom. Thankfully it’s an iBook, made with iBook Authors, and this first semester I don’t have to sell it; I can just give it to the...
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What I Have Been Doing Over the Holidays: Dissertation -> Book
FINALLY (with the deadline way too close to actually get it done in time) I got back to working on my dissertation to turn it into the published book that has been “Contracted” on my CV for the last...
View ArticlePreparing for a Conference: Web Manager
I am the web manager for a regional conference in English, CCTE. I like being the web manager, because I know what is going on at all times. I don’t like being the web manager, because people think I...
View ArticlePreparing for a Conference: Program Manager
For CCTE’s conference that is this week, I also volunteered (or at least did not say no when asked) to create the program brochure. I thought that was fairly simple. I could take pictures, put stuff in...
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5 Potential Teaching Alternatives
One idea: “Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” Etienne Wenger (ewenger.com)...
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CFPs: Some Very Busy Folks
I was searching for publication CFPs (not that I have time to write anything) and I found a whole series of fascinating ones. After I had posted a few here at TCE–just in case I do come up with some...
View ArticleStarting Spring Break
I got up this morning without my clothing pre-planned. I wanted to wear jeans, but those are not professor wear at my university, so I didn’t do that. Instead I wore the one pair of capri pants my...
View ArticleHooray for Tech Angels!
My spouse is a Mac programmer and thanks to him a major problem with iBooks Author has gone away in my Introduction to Early British Literature collection of iBooks. Finally students will be able to...
View ArticleProcrastination… Or Not Having Enough Time?
Last year I spent 16 hours a day working. I got everything I needed to get done finished. Some of it I didn’t get done on time, but it got done. This year, I am working ten to twelve hour days. For...
View ArticleFaculty Evaluation
I had my faculty evaluation with my chair today. I didn’t make poor grades on anything. They were all good. However, my teaching, which I have worked so hard to do well on did not receive an excellent....
View ArticleTweet: On IPA
Having trouble typing some of the more obscure IPA diacritics for your phonetics work? Try this web-based tool.
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Linguistics Retrospective, Spring 2013
Introduction: My first year at the new university, I was given a senior-level linguistics course that had been taught by the department chair, Dr. Nancy Shankle-Jordan, for the last twelve years. Even...
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FYC, 2nd Semester, Retrospective
New Class, Again Having moved to my university just last year, and having had to adjust to teaching totally different sources and works, I was not pleased to hear that the class was changing...
View ArticleSummer iBook
This summer I am finishing up my British Literature iBook so that it will be ready for the iTunes store. I am also starting the Old English book for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to teach a...
View ArticleIdeas for a Survey Course
Thinking about my sophomore survey course here… This is an article about ditching the history survey courses. But the idea is a relevant one and interesting for English too. We still have survey...
View ArticleSummer Schedule
Is your summer schedule already out the window? Mine is. I was going to spend two weeks finishing my dissertation for publication and get it out of my hair and to the editors. Then I found out that I...
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Going to NY
I am going to New York for a friend’s wedding. I will have fun and do crazy things. See you next week.Manhattan Skyline, Creative Commons 2 by AngMoKio
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Thinking about “Kentucky Higher Ed” (and higher ed in general)
From metawriting.deannamascle.com: “For much of my time at Morehead State University I have primarily interacted with the members of my home department – English. … This year, especially this spring,...
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