Grading and using blogs

There’s a good ProfHacker post at the Chronicle today about grading student blogs. I like the idea of having two student blog grades – one an overall “I did this” grade, and one a grade of perhaps the two best posts, (perhaps revised and) submitted for review. I love portfolio grades in writing classes, and getting students to explain in […]

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ProfHacker proposes that humanities scholars should learn digital tools. I disagree.

I like the idea proposed on this site for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”, otherwise titled “Project “Develop Self-Paced Open Access DH Curriculum for Mid-Career Scholars Otherwise Untrained””. And I’m still thinking about it even though I already posted a comment disagreeing with it (which contained a typo, which according to academic blogosphere etiquette automatically disqualifies my thoughts). It’s my […]

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More news, in small bites

Just a few weeks ago we completed the ninth Catalyst Faculty Boot Camp, an intensive pedagogy and technology workshop. At the end, as we always do, we asked the participants for their feedback and ideas on how we could educate the rest of Hofstra’s faculty about their technology and teaching options. As usual the participants suggested that one way to […]

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