Category: Teaching
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Adventures in Digital Rhetoric, part the first
This term I’m teaching an ENGL 1102 course themed Digital Rhetoric and Interaction Design. It is a subject that has interested me since my corporate days at HBO cobbling hbo.com together. I’m interested in discussions about how we use the tools and interfaces that we embrace so eagerly (at the moment I’m struggling to make…
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The Quick Write and the Coke Machine …
… or, How I Learned to Love the Google Doc This semester the subject of my English 1102 course is “The Rhetoric of Digital Media and Interaction Design.” I’ve wanted to teach this for a while: not only does it allow me to flex my DH muscles in a way I haven’t in the last…
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Respite from the Grading Trenches
I took time off this morning to consider why the heck I’m teaching this stuff: “Once More Unto the Breach, Or, Why Teach Shakespeare to Georgia Tech Undergraduates.” And now back to the trenches.
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Report from the Grading Trenches, Dispatch Two
As you’ll know if you’ve read the last few posts that my ambitious course plans for the semester have prompted me to think more carefully not only about the feedback I give, but how I give that feedback and how fine-grained I can make that feedback without driving myself to distraction. Here at the Writing…