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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. Some other great instructor will be taking over ENGL3043 at Prairie View A&M, since I have left the university for another position. For all my eMedia alum, I hope you remember something useful for your professional goals! This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 11, 2016. When I first started using Canva. And I muddled through with a series of free icons in complementary colors. April 24, 2016. Althou...
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. ENGL3043 is an upper-division university writing course. It focuses on the following:. Application of principles of effective professional writing to the planning, production, and evaluation of electronic media, emphasizing writing that employs new forms of electronic communication such as electronic mail, web pages, and other dynamic interactive modes. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Group Projects in Online Classes | Education & Web 2.0
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. Group Projects in Online Classes. You’ve heard it before — perhaps you’ve even. It before: teachers love group projects because they mean less work. Apparently I am doing group projects wrong, then! Inspirational teamwork quotes (graphics created in Canva). Write report and presentation assignments; code and load into LMS. Create report and presentation grading rubrics; upload and link in LMS. Write a disc...
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. A Course in Contemporary Novels. Last spring, a student came to my office, discouraged with the slated course offerings for Fall 2015. “I’ve taken all of those classes,” she explained. “And I want to read. Novels. Lots of them.”. Naturally, I offered to design an independent study course in contemporary long fiction. The following eleven novels, grouped into three clusters…. The House on Mango Street.
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AP Exams without AP Classes | Education & Web 2.0
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. AP Exams without AP Classes. There’s a lot of talk about Advanced Placement (AP) exams lately, given concerns over the AP U.S. History exam in Oklahoma. And, here in Texas, the push for more students to take AP classes and the associated exams. Recently, I was discussing this topic with some friends in reaction to the article “What Happens When a 38-Year-Old Man Takes an AP History Test? And prayed it was ...
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The Successful Online Student | Education & Web 2.0
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. The Successful Online Student. Every semester for my online courses, I create a Google form as a getting-to-know-you survey to be completed during the first week of the term. This time around, I added statements from Fairmont University’s “Characteristics of a Successful Online Student,” especially the bulleted list of statements at the bottom of the page. Over half of the respondents suffer from procrasti...
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Educational Training Wheels | Education & Web 2.0
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. A high school English teacher who blogs under the moniker Shakespeare’s Sister describes a perplexing classroom situation. She works through a task using I do, We do, You do,” where she first models the thinking and searching she wants to see; then students do it together in small groups before shifting into individual practice. Why the “I don’t get it” and “We need help”? This may help students achieve be...
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SparkNotes Quashes Intellectual Fire? | Education & Web 2.0
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. SparkNotes Quashes Intellectual Fire? My mother clipped a Jan. 2015 article from her local paper about a visiting English teacher / mentor who came to talk to the Issaquah School District, in the Seattle suburbs, about the problem of reading avoidance among teenagers. The consultant, Penny Kittle, raised several interesting points, but the passage below caught my attention:. To Kill a Mockingbird. No one e...
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TypeForm Review | Education & Web 2.0
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Education and Web 2.0. Former Blog Hub for ENGL3043: Professional Writing for E-Media. Sunset 2016. I currently use Google forms for multiple work tasks, especially gathering student feedback and quickly assessing writing samples. Most of my students will encounter at least one, if not a dozen, Google forms over the course of a semester, like the one below from a freshman-level technical writing class. Overall, I think that the results that the end user sees would be far more visually impressive than a G...
