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Teaching In A Time Of Pandemic: Dispatches from Metawriting

I’ve been teaching online and hybrid classes for more than a dozen years. I designed and piloted Morehead State’s online…

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Pitching the Grid

I have long been a fan of the elevator pitch. When I was president of the Kentucky Romance Writers we…

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Let’s Stop Calling It The Writing Process

There are many metaphors used to describe and teach the writing process, but the most harmful might be the stoplight…

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(Re)Orientation

Recently a colleague of mine, Jeffrey Klausman of Whatcom Community College, asked our professional listserve what training colleges were providing…

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Community Support: More than icebreakers

So far I have written 93 blog posts about creating and supporting community in the classroom, but most of those…

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Conversation Tables: An interactive annotated bibliography

What’s New? This week my students and I created conversation tables (a form of annotated bibliography) to invite multiple voices…