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Category Archives: First Year Seminar
Third Class — More Introduction to the Toolkit
Tuesday was another lab day in the first year seminar. In 75 minutes, we introduced the students to wikis, blog readers (in the form of bloglines), RSS, Tagging and social bookmarking (in the form of del.icio.us). In retrospect, I have … Continue reading
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More Thoughts on Thursday’s Seminar Session
I’m still reflecting on Thursday’s class where I asked students to define education and to discuss why they are taking this course and what they bring to it. (I gave them the questions in advance and asked for written answers.) … Continue reading
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Notes on the Seminar
Thursday I got two volunteers to take careful notes during our discussion. I’ve taken those notes, combined and lightly edited them to fit together. I just sent them out to the class for corrections or amendment to better represent what … Continue reading
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First Day of Class
Yesterday was the first day of class in the new seminar I’ve been preparing for all summer: fifteen first year students on their second day of college. I had the luxury of two co-teachers: Martha Burtis, our Acting Director of … Continue reading
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Second Meeting with IT Staff
Last month, I blogged about my initial consultation with our IT staff to brainstorm about my upcoming first year seminar. Yesterday I had my second formal meeting, this time with Martha and Jerry. Earlier in the week I emailed them … Continue reading
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Teaching as a Subversive Activity
I’ve just finished reading a powerful and provocative book, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner’s Teaching as a Subversive Activity. (Inside joke: The book was recommended by one of the speakers at the First Year Seminar Teaching workshop. Can you guess … Continue reading
Conversation about the First Year Seminar
Today, I was having a conversation via email with Charlotte Houtchens, one of UMW’s excellent reference librarians, and one of the “adjunct faculty” for our group teaching First Year Seminars next year. (Adjunct faculty are individuals with expertise of some … Continue reading
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Course Design Process for U2.0?
I had an amazing experience yesterday, a “consultation†with Gardner and his staff of IT Specialists: Jerry, Martha, Andy, Jim and Patrick. Also present was Charlotte Houtchens, one of our reference librarians. The purpose of the consultation was to think … Continue reading
A Better Articulated Description of What I’m Looking for in the First Year Seminar next Year
As a result of this week’s Faculty Academy, I think I have a better idea of what I’m looking for in the way of IT support for the first year seminar I’m teaching next year, which I wrote about some … Continue reading
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Hosting Another Faculty Conversation
About a month ago I mentioned that I was participating in our school’s new first year seminar program next year. In that post I asked for help designing a digital environment to support my seminar. We took the first step … Continue reading