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What does student success look like?

Eustaquio Santimano via Compfight I have been pondering this question as I prepared my poster presentation for the Kentucky Student…

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Which Comes First For You: The Spirit or the Letter of the Law?

What’s New? One of the reasons I am not quite yet ready to retire (despite being battered and broken by…

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Students Say Multiple Connections Make Learning Better and More Fun

Or What I Learned From Midterm Course Evaluations This semester I tried something new — midterm course evaluations. I was…

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Using Comic Book Themes and Archetypes to Write About Humanity

What’s New? I no longer teach a Walking Dead themed class, but I am still teaching classes with themes because…

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Using 6-word-memoir Posters to Discuss Reading, Inspire Writing

At my institution our Writing II class is based on using a reader and it is intended for students to…

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Google Docs, Blackboard blogs, and class discussion

I have been teaching online for several years and one class activity which I have continually struggled with is the…