by Amanda Rioux Designing resumes. It’s a process many of us are familiar with: we even teach the process to our students. While we may have an idea of what a resume should include, are we really taking into consideration what potential employers want to see?
Positive Reinforcement for Online Classrooms
I scrolled by a meme on Facebook the other day. Interested in all potentially funny memes, I paused on the photo. The photo showed an illustration of a boy at a school desk looking at the teacher with sad eyes. The teacher’s hand pointed to the paper on the desk, the floaty text between the Read More…
OWI & Multimodal Assignments: A Return to Normal
Throughout my experience with higher education, or just education in general, nothing was more enjoyable than a multimodal project. Having the ability to demonstrate skills, techniques, or other useful knowledge in a fun, interesting modality was always something I looked forward to. In my own experience with dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic, specifically, learning Read More…
Another Approach to Teaching Technical Communication to Students: Through MMoRPGs
Pedagogy, as related to teaching technical communication, can benefit from adapting based on the needs of the user, and one way to understand this is through “massively multiplayer online role-playing games,” or “MMoRPGs,” such as World of Warcraft (WoW). Video games that bring forth so much online culture, like WoW, result in plenty of technical Read More…
“Why Aren’t More Students Seeking Mental Health Support?”
I found this website called Inside Higher Ed which seems to contain endless amounts of blogs and articles related to teaching and working in higher education. I was searching for strategies to understand and help address all the mental and psychological issues that are becoming more prominent than ever before. There were a lot of Read More…
Thinking about Space
For my second summary, I read Spatial Orientations Cultivating Critical Spatial Perspectives in Technical Communication Pedagogy by Elise Verzosa Hurley. I think what attracted me most to this article is the multiplicity of the definitions of “space.” In my summary, I wrote, Technical communication has the opportunity to create in-depth understanding of marginalized groups and Read More…
An Extraordinary Course
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…
Pragmatic Error and Employer Perceptions of Nonnative & Native English Speakers
The article I read for the most recent summary was Grammatical Versus “Pragmatic Error: Employer Perceptions of Nonnative and Native English Speakers” by Joanna Wolfe, Nisha Shanmugaraj, and Jaclyn Sipe. I found it interesting when Amanda discussed it with my group in a break out room. I wanted to know more about the topic and Read More…
Looking for Instances of Knowledge Transference in Student Writing
by: Amanda Rioux For one of the reading summaries I selected an article entitled “Invisible Transfer: An Unexpected Finding in the Pursuit of Transfer” (Scheiber). I found the concept interesting: the author wishes to know if the idea of transfer (i.e.: taking skills learned in one area and applying them to another) appears in business Read More…
Thinking about Accessibility and Inclusion
Blog Post #2 By: Michaella Lesieur I am stepping back to last semester in this blog post as there was one particular chapter that resonated with the setting in which we are all teaching in now… I remember seeing the word of “accessibility” and yes… it can be an overly broad term; however, one that Read More…