Posts Tagged ‘pedagogy’

Teaching disability studies

Yay, a post! I miss writing in this blog. Hello, blog. I figure that a good post-hiatus post might involve what I’ve been up to lately that is non-dissertation — that is, teaching. This past quarter, I taught an undergraduate section of Intro to Disability Studies, the second time I’ve taught this course. And in [...]


Entry tale

As does any stressed out grad student, I’ve been questioning my decisions. Why am I an English major? How on earth did I come to enjoy rhetoric and composition in the first place? How can I stay up later without abusing caffeine? This past fall, in a composition theory course, we were asked to compose [...]


Bad Advice Manual: Digital Pedagogy Series

Being that I’m currently enrolled in a digital media studies course, I’ve been creating lots of digital media-type artifacts. Our class, as it comes to a close, has been dabbling in wikis, and I decided to make my last course/wiki nugget in image form. I like images. I just finished reading the collection Teaching Writing [...]


On Teaching

Sometimes, I’m really surprised that I can talk at all, surprised that I actually have a voice. When I teach, I feel so different and utterly disconnected from who I am in reality. I suddenly don the mask of being social, of being talkative.