Tag Archives: TeacherlyThoughts
New Teacher Binder
I promised I would blog my response to a question in a week to share all of the things that I didn’t get to say when I had the privilege of speaking to Todd Conaway’s learning community. First, let me … Continue reading
Teacher-Leader & Other Words I Make Up
This past year, 2021, was not my best year as a blogger. I somehow wrote thousands of words, however. Just not here. Close to having a draft of a book, this girl. A Memoir. No, really. It’s a memoir. I … Continue reading
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Tagged A Memoir, Adjuncts, ChangeManagement, leadership, OERBlatherings, TeacherlyThoughts, Writing
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At Capacity With Words
This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear, we speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. ~Toni Morrison For some … Continue reading
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Tagged Instructional Design, LeLivre, TeacherlyThoughts
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The Red Pencil
“Always allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind” ~Maria Popova In a creative writing class, a teacher once told us a story about Raymond Carver who was a legend for reading his published works with a red pencil … Continue reading
Aperture & Open & Creativity
Awhile back, a post of mine took off in wild wonderful ways, and I did plan on a follow-up post on all the workshoppery. But then a lot of travel for work happened and this post sat in my drafts … Continue reading
Robot Tasks & Creative Brains
When I first started teaching online, I kept an on-going document of my most common responses to students. At the time, I felt like the worst teacher ever. My inner writer wanted to personalize every single message to students to … Continue reading
Disasters & Bicycles
“Stop asking how technology can help you teach and start asking how technology should change how you teach.” ~Mike Caulfield, shadow syllabus for T&L 521 “Renewable assignments also imply a shift in faculty thinking from “grading” to “editing.” For each … Continue reading
As I walk through this wiki-world
The screenshot above is from the last composition course that I taught: English 102: Composition II spring quarter 2013. This was an Honors course at my college, so I tried to take my standard curriculum and create self-directed assignments. Our … Continue reading
Spoke & Hub 