Classroom participation, both assessing and grading, can be equally as puzzling as it is exhilarating. Understanding how, why, and when students feel most comfortable to participate is vital in a professor’s participation efforts, as without a comprehensive understanding of the student’s needs in-class activities and classroom engagement activities will certainly underperform. Essentially, this process Read More…
Tag: Engagement
Goldilocks and the Three Characteristics of Intellectual Participation
“‘Goldiloxxing’ Intellectual Participation: Getting it ‘Just Right’” Genevieve Critel sought to define the elusive concept of “participation,” and when her colleagues took up her mantle, they continued to investigate different interpretations of this term. One exploration led Kelly Bradbury and Paul Muhlhauser to another topoi, or commonplace of participation: intellectualism. Bradbury and Muhlhauser further Critel’s Read More…
Participation and Feminist Intervention
By Barbara Shaddix Chapter 10 in The Rhetoric of Participation, titled “Participation as Reflective Practice: Digital Composing and Feminist Pedagogy,” begins with the idea that “knowledge making [is] situated and relational,” a central tenet of feminist pedagogy. Jason Palmeri and Abby Dubisar, the authors of this chapter, choose to position their argument in terms of the Read More…
To Grade (Participation) or Not to Grade (Participation), That is the Question
As new instructors, I think many of us can relate to a wide constellation of anxieties. How do we keep our students engaged? How do we ensure our students are understanding the curriculum? How do we encourage participation? Oftentimes, it can be difficult to navigate participation grading. To grade or not to grade, that 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…
The Importance of Personalization
by Mitchell Riel At this point in our remote teaching experience I’m sure that a vast majority of instructors would agree that remote instruction is dramatically different than in person instruction. As a result of this, formulating and implementing successful and effective pedagogical decisions into our remote teaching practice has often been a difficult task Read More…
The Importance of Perspective
One of the key lessons I took from reading this chapter is the importance of perspective. Apparent feminism is a methodology designed by Erin Frost to emphasize the importance of being explicit about feminist identify in response to socially unjust situations. It also invites participation from allies who do not identify as feminist but do Read More…
Social Media in the College Classroom
The article I wrote my first summary on for this semester was “Focus Social Media in Business and Professional Communication Courses: A Survey of Student Preferences” By Emil B. Towner and Bruce R. Klemz. This felt like a timely thing to be thinking about considering the fact that we are learning fully online right Read More…
Being “Social” In the Classroom (Blog Post 1)
By: Michaella Lesieur Can we do it?! Sure, we can…but you might want to think about which platforms first and of course do your research. For our first summary I looked at the article “Social Media in Business and Professional Communication Courses: A Survey of Student Preferences” from Business & Professional Communication Courses: A Read More…