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Teaching tips, tools, and hacks as well as descriptions of lessons

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Dear Students

We haven’t met yet, but I have been thinking about you for months. Obviously, I do not yet know you…

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The Group Learning Document

What’s New? One of the interesting parts of a deep dive into my blog archives is that I can see…

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Paper Trails: My Alternative to the Annotated Bibliography

I’ve always loved the annotated bibliography assignment, because I am just that kind of a geek. I regularly assign annotated…

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Students Respect the Badge

Last week I blogged about why my students must blog. In many ways I was preaching to the choir. Most…

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Why My Students Must Blog

I am a writing teacher. No matter what subject I’m teaching I am a writing teacher. I believe writing is…

one does not simply create a community of writers
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Community Doesn’t Just Happen

A writing community is important for all writers. It is no fun to write alone and writing alone does not…