Hi all, I follow Deanna Mascle’s Metawriting blog, and I found something that resonates with Group Two’s presentation. Mascle is a doctoral candidate at Morehead State, and she reflects really […]
Archive | April, 2015
Two Summaries: Innovation and Higher Ed and State of Humanities
Two interesting summaries: American Academy of Arts and Sciences on the Humanities in higher education: http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/humanities-higher-education-742/2/ Learning from five unique university innovation incubators and institutional changes required to […]
Persistence and Success: What I’d love to see more of
As our Mappings class has been focusing on “Professors & Persistence,” I’ve found myself hyper alert to the academic and life obstacles orbiting around our students and interfering with their […]
April 20 | Federica Muzzarelli, “Exploring Identities: Women Photographers and Gender Performance”
Great talk by U Washington Interim President Ana Marie Cause: “Diversity Supercharges Innovation”
Wonderful talk by the President of the University of Washington, Professor Ana Marie Cause: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uWxEJhehjM&app=desktop
Building Equity and Innovation Into a Syllabus: Or, We May Not Be Able to Change the Word But We Can Change Our Classrooms
In “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,” the first Futures Initiative course, President Emeritus William Kelly and I focused on pedagogy, on what you can do tomorrow in your classroom […]
“Earth is Forgiveness School”–Anne Lamott
Our class sessions on Professors & Persistence got me thinking about the role of forgiveness in the classroom, particularly inspired by writer Anne Lamott‘s essay on “shitty first drafts.” In […]
Howard Rheingold Offering Online Course on Cooperation and Co-Learning
Hi everyone, For anyone who wants more theory about co-learning, Howard Rheingold (father of Mamie, who visited our class) has retired from UC Berkeley and Stanford but is still running […]
English 110 has a question! Changing GDoc comment colors.
We are becoming Google Docs experts, and are wondering how to change the (automatic) highlight color that comes up over text when a comment is inserted. From some Googling, it […]
Is Educational Freedom and Choice Always Free? Reflections on Our Conversation with Dean John Mogulescu
(Another version was posted to our Futures Initiative group on hastac.org) This week our “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course had the honor of hosting Dean John Mogulescu, Founding […]