Feb 17, 2020
Annotated by the Author is published weekly by the New York Times – it highlights one of the week’s articles and has the author explain their revision, editing, and rhetorical choices. Everything from fixing grammatical errors to specific use of terms and...
Feb 12, 2020
Students have great insights of our teaching and lessons. I have worked this year to actively seek out feedback from my students and ask them to reflect on my teaching and their learning. While this has the potential to open myself up to some sharp criticisms, I...
Feb 12, 2020
I have started using the Quiz feature in Moodle to collect feedback and short-essay reflections from my students. This feature has proven to allow students a greater amount of time to reflect on the content/experience, and thus the responses I receive are more...
Jan 31, 2020
Teaching can drain you. We invest so much in to our lessons, planning, giving feedback…. and for what? Proverbially, we are planting seeds that we may never see grow. More often than not, we will never know the outcomes of what students take away from our...
Jan 31, 2020
Before I begin, I need to give credit and a shout out to Nick Roster, who inspired me with his own lock box activity. I had been wanting to do a group-styled “exam” for some time with my classes, and his idea of the “lock box” gave me the...
