What Is Your Class About?
What’s New? I love that description of the exciting, sometimes feverish, period before the school year begins and things get…
Notable Notes: Planning ahead while wrapping up
What’s New? One tricky thing about my brain is that I can never not think about teaching. I try and…
Achievements and Student Choice
I don’t believe in a lot of the magic bullets we hear about at all levels of education. I don’t…
Conversations in My Classroom: Truth, Listening, and Understanding
I teach a lot of general education classes and so I always like to begin my semester exploring the question:…
James Paul Gee & Gamification in My Classroom
“Gamification, the use of game-design elements for a non-game purpose, interests me because I do not want my classes to…
Notable Notes: Usability Tests vs. Peer Review
I have decided that next semester I am going to abandon my existing peer review workshop strategy in favor of…
