By Amanda Beres The field of technical and professional communication is changing to include a focus on social justice issues. More interconnected, wide, and vast, employers are looking for people who can think on a global scale. Now more than ever, technical and professional communication focuses on user experience. In fact, it almost is a Read More…
Tag: Student Support
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…
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…
Helping Multilingual Students Be Successful
I’m sharing an experience I had last semester related to the chapter “Multilingual Writers and OWI” – Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction edited by Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew. This article talks about tailoring online writing instruction to best support multilingual and nonnative English speakers. We have an incredibly diverse population in Read More…
Online Engagement Strategies
Hi friends!! I just wanted to share this article with you guys real quick, it’s called Engagement Matters: Student Perceptions on the Importance of Engagement Strategies in the Online Learning Environment by Florence Martin and it essentially discusses three primary ways to encourage students to engage in class. The goals of these strategies are to student Read More…