January 29, 2007

Teaching Carnival #19: a day late and a dollar short. But with pictures.

The theme of this carnival is "back in the saddle":

Tenured Radical on setting their hair on fire. Flavia on setting the tone. Ancarett on the start of term (and on the enviable flexibility of, to a large extent, organizing ones own schedule). New Kid is starting her term with a bang and a whimper. JM embraces the start of term for the way it structures her other work. Liz Kleinfeld on thinking one semester ahead. Anne Galloway has decided to follow the Chinese calendar this year. Mary McKinney remains philosophical. Dr. Virago is still in her pajamas. Janet Stemwedel on the physics of parking. Dr. Crazy wants them to come to class.

Manorama on teaching feminism.

Trillwing on mentoring graduate students with Bitch Ph.D, and Spencer Schaffner on the politics of putting together committees.

An American Professor in China asks what's in a name? Sarah learns some names in English.

An excellent post at The Paper Chase: "Teaching students with chronic illnesses, kindly."

Horace posts an oldie but a goodie.

Or maybe the theme should be, "back to basics":

Readin'

Films, that is: Chuck Tryon on that celluloid phantasm, the noble teacher.

And: reading last term's evaluations and learning that gay history is not history.

Writin'

Hilaire on "The joy of writing...and writing about teaching."

Scot Barnett asks, why teach digital writing?

Marcia says, "It's all professional writing," from emails to essays. She also posts on writing and researching using del.icio.us

Senioritis on ghost writing.

Laura tries Second Life, with mixed results.

Some practical tips for teaching with blogs at xoom. Delaney Kirk has more on blogging.

Jason Jones' students will "collectively populate a timeline of British literature since romanticism." (And he contemplates using Atlas, too).

Dr. Fabulous exposes anti-technology rhetoric.

George posts about assignments designed for either end of the undergraduate teaching spectrum: some truly inspired assignments for a senior seminar, and freewriting with an intro. class.

Jill wonders if her worksheets for students are crazy.

Tinma worries about censoring students online.

Finally, as far a writing is concerned, it turns out that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Speakin'?

Krista Kennedy on teaching cadence in a public speaking course.

Jenny asks, is it wrong to be wrong in class?

Manorama and Dr. Crazy on participation.

'Rithmatic (work with me here)

Timna plays the numbers.

David Silver just began two courses, one in digital journalism and and the other in media internship.

At Parts-n-Pieces: "The Benefits of Project 365." Ditto at Scrivenings.

Strength in numbers: Zimbio is calling for a new Carnival of Edublogs.

And check out the 103rd edition of The Carnival Of Education at The Education Wonks.

If you would like to tag your posts for future carnivals, find out how here. Sorry if I missed you; there were lots (LOTS) more great posts, but I ran out of steam! Check out the next Teaching Carnival at revisionspiral on February 15.

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