In the title of this post, I use the word extraordinary to mean outside of the ordinary, the norm, and what is expected. I was thinking back to some of my favorite or most-memorable classes that have taken a departure from what is expected in a “normal” course. These “extraordinary” experiences are memorable because they Read More…
Author: nicole
Discussions around Transferable Skills
In ENL 266, we start off the semester by seeing how technical communication is all around us. It’s not just in manuals or long instruction guides, but technical communication is found within emails, presentations, and other forms of everyday communication. This semester, I have been especially focused on continuing this “it’s all around us” message Read More…
Adding Images to myCourses Modules
Last semester, I read the “Personal” chapter of Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors by Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle, and this reading encouraged the use of images in online writing instruction. Because of this, I started adding wordclouds to the overview of each module—the wordcloud containing text from the Read More…