Literacy for the iGeneration

I had planned on using this blog to keep track of the things we do in class. The purpose is both to help students and to help myself when I reteach the class in the future. It will give me a place to capture what occured in class, what worked and what didn’t. But, the [...]

Welcome back to a new semester. We’ve had our first week of class and it was great seeing everyone again. We did a little getting to know each other activity even though we’ve been together for one semester already. At the end of last semester, it became obvious to me that despite my efforts to [...]

Remember way back during Fall semester when Allison and I talked about the public representation of self – and particularly Facebook? Well, it’s real. Here’s an article from the NY Times about a woman who was dismissed from her student teaching placement because of a Facebook photo.

This week’s class is meant for students to experience diversity. So, we are not actually meeting as a class. Each student is going to go to the equivalent of three hours worth of for freedoms week presentations/exhibits. All students will continue to read news papers and comment on the blogs. Don’t forget to take notes, [...]

Today we went to the Frankenstein event in Cleary Theater. There was a panel discussion about the Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Six students from Fisher conducted the panel talk. The first speaker talked about the bond between the creature and victor, she believed victor becomes more like the creature after
Elizabeth died. The second speaker spoke about [...]

The first thing we talked about was being flexible in the classroom throughout the day. What works in theory doesn’t always work in practice, and what works then in one class may not work in another.
Moving on from that, we discussed the Frankenstein Symposium on October 30th. Volunteers were called for to teach mini-lessons at [...]

Tuesday’s class began with some announcements. On October 30 our class will be participating in a  Frankenstein symposium held during regular class time. This requires that we all become familiar with Frankenstein’s original story (look at wiki website under “assigned readings”) before the symposium. For those who would like, our professor is looking for volunteers [...]

Today in class Allison Bosworth came in and discussed with us our Field Experience. – Don’t forget to pick up your green folders! After her discussion Dr. Jacobs discussed the syllabus with us. We went over any questions, in particular we discussed the PodCast assignment. We also covered lesson plans and how we’ll be learning [...]

During our September 11 class, Allison Bosworth started the class off letting us know what we needed to do to for our field experience this semester.  Following this, we began talking about the readings that were due and we wrote down what we learned, what surprised us, and one question we had regarding the texts.  [...]

Here is an example of a NY Times article that I might refer to in a blog or use in teaching.
Virus possible cause of killing honeybees You’ll need a free subscription to the NY Times to access the article.
I think this article is interesting because it really captures the interconnectivity of things. First, honeybees [...]