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Category: teacherly me

  • teacherly me

teaching rhetorical analysis of software applications

  • Posted on November 18, 2010
  • by Cat

A little over a year ago I designed a new project to use in my technical and business writing courses. The first iteration of this project was used in my Fall 2009 Technical Writing class at Purdue. The Rhetorical Analysis…

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  • I shake my head

Worst PowerPoint slide *ever*

  • Posted on May 3, 2010May 3, 2010
  • by Cat

The PowerPoint slide meant to demonstrate military strategy in Afghanistan wins my award for worst PowerPoint slide ever. And I’ve seen some pretty bad PowerPoint slides. This NY Times article provides an interesting discussion of it and contains the following,…

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  • activista cat

bell hooks and the challenges of teaching in higher ed

  • Posted on February 23, 2010February 25, 2010
  • by Cat

Though the month is nearing its end, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge some of the amazing African-American thinkers and visionaries who have influenced my life. It’s unfortunate that we need to designate a month to ensure that…

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  • teacherly me

Wi-Fi Enabled School Bus

  • Posted on February 13, 2010February 13, 2010
  • by Cat

When I saw this article in the New York Times, my first thought was: What about the kids who don’t have laptops? Happily, I discovered during the reading of the article that the school being discussed–Empire High School outside of…

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  • activista cat

Social media and free speech in the classroom

  • Posted on January 23, 2010February 9, 2010
  • by Cat

While researching the use of Facebook in the classroom (I’m trying to find a way to create a version of my profile that allows me to be friends with my students while limiting the information that they can see and…

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  • teacherly me

a tale of inappropriate comments

  • Posted on November 7, 2009November 7, 2009
  • by Cat

In the Fall of 2006 I received an email, filtered down through the chain of departmental command, regarding my course website from the previous Spring. The email regarded a comment exchange between two students from my Technical Writing class. Now…

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  • teacherly me

A Tech Blog for Teachers

  • Posted on October 6, 2009October 6, 2009
  • by Cat

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education today discusses a blog set up by two professors, Jason B. Jones, a professor at Central Connecticut State University, and George H. Williams, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina…

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