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Insignificant Wranglings
Category Archives: teaching
First Day, Fall 2012
Somehow it is already the first day of classes for 2012. I am not sure where my summer went. I am excited to teach a new grad class this semester, New Media Production. The course differs from the other grad … Continue reading
Posted in electracy, mystory, new-media-class, teaching, ulmer, writing, writing-tech
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I’ll Take Know Your Rhetorician
Today in my undergraduate Rhetorical Theory class, we played “Ancient Rhetorical Jeopardy.”
Posted in rhetorical-theory, teaching
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Discrimination or a Bad Day?
Via Facebook, a story from Native News Network about a student suspended for using her native language in class. FTA: “The teacher went back to where the two were sitting and literally slammed her hand down on the desk and … Continue reading
Fall 2011 Reading Lists
I was doing so well posting here. I even got a comment from Dave Weinberger. And then last week happened. I spent most of today finishing my syllabi for the fall and submitting my book orders. Here’s how my two … Continue reading
Posted in historical-rhetorics, new-media-class, teaching
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Week One, Spring 2011
Our first week of classes is coming to a close. My New Media class read Walter Ong’s “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought” and will be remediating the essay into (x)html this weekend. I haven’t read that article in … Continue reading
Posted in davis, davis-review, new-media-class, research, resilient-tampa-bay, rhetoric, rhetoric-and-technology, selber-review, spring-2011, teaching, visual-rhetoric-class
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Institutional Responsibility
The other day a colleague and I were discussing what to teach in this post-postmodern age, generally agreeing that rehashing the theory-science wars was counterproductive, and that teaching deconstructive critique (as a purely epistemological exercise) was out of steam. See … Continue reading
Posted in contemporary-rhetoric, derrida, rhetoric, teaching, theory
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Visual Rhetoric InDesign Project
I’m teaching an undergraduate course in Visual Rhetoric for the first time at USF this semester. Our first few projects involved analysis and manipulation in photoshop. Our fourth project requires students to work in groups of 4 to design a … Continue reading
Posted in teaching, technology, visual-rhetoric
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Assessment from a Poetic Perspective
My wife today sent me a link to Heather K. Phillips MFA thesis project. Heather is a recent graduate of RISD; her project speaks to the legitimation of critique and the ubiquity of assessment at all levels of education. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in contemporary-rhetoric, cool, lyotard, teaching, theory
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Lessig Quotes Huxley
Lawrence Lessig quotes Huxley (1927) in his OpenVideoAlliance webside chat: “In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, digital-citizenship, fair-use, lessig, teaching, technology
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Made My Day
A student wrote me this note while submitting his final paper for my upper-division expository class: This was by far the hardest paper I had to write in my collegiate career. I’m not complaining, I really enjoyed writing it but … Continue reading
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