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Many of my colleagues who have dismissed YouTube as a dumping ground for "look at what funny stuff my dog can do" have missed out on a fabulous resource. Don't get me wrong, there are some amusing videos featuring different animals doing lots of unlikely things; however, there also are tons of "how-to" videos. You need to learn how to do a certain crochet stitch, ask YouTube. You need to know how

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Yes, I admit it, I generally use Turnitin.com with my online students! I know, some of my rhet/comp colleagues are not happy with this fact. I too did not believe that using plagiarism detection software was a good thing; however, one of our part-time faculty at Mesa Community College helped change my mind. I figure it was worth taking a few minutes to describe how and why I

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A colleague and friend just posted this "translation" of Rousseau's Confessions as a Facebook note. My being behind on blogging this week made this an obvious sign that I should ask Matt to guest blog this week. He agreed to having me post here! Here is an excerpt from Jean-Jaques Rousseau's Confessions in which he talks about his writing process. The text is from the 1945 translation, so I've

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I was ecstatic the first time I asked my online writing students to complete all of their work in a blog; I've never gone back! For years now I've had students start blogs and then post most of their course work within their own blog. I have to admit, for various reasons I've had to make fo-blogs in learning management systems the past year or so and they haven't worked quite as well; however,

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I just finished the first week of classes, and I've got my first batch of homework to grade. It feels, I haven't done a study or anything, that I assign a lot more homework when compared to a bunch of my colleagues. Now, I also teach online; so all those face-to-face activities have to be converted into online activities (which makes it all homework). Anyhoo...Many of my colleagues see my list of

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In all of the years I've taught college writing courses, I've never settled on an appropriate reason, philosophy, and/or method for teaching "grammar." Although I was one of the people who saved my college writing handbook, I'm also a college writing professor. I hate the idea of students purchasing an expensive book, barely using it, and then selling it back for pennies on the dollar. And I hate

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Although I love the theory of the Library 2.0 concept model visualized below, it is not happening in my online courses (and for a lot of my community college commuter students who only come to campus for classes). The model below is definitely what Susan's library at North Carolina State University is trying to provide for the students. They've got video game systems in the library; I was so

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I have my ENG102 (second semester of first year composition, with a research paper requirement) students hit the library databases very early in the semester. Specifically, I have them go to the CQ Researcher database to look up current topics and to see if there are reports on topics they are already interested in. CQ Research is a great starting place for a variety of reasons:CQ Research

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About the AssignmentI don’t know about you, but student introductions (especially for online classes) are generally pretty boring. And if I’m bored, you know they are bored. Ever since I started having students make Animoto slide shows as a part of their course introduction, two things have happened:All of the students read and watch one another’s introductions, many of them responding to one

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Gotta start with the traditional first post of "hello world." This blog, along with a variety of other sites listed below, is the attempt at a strategized (did I just make up a word? I love being an English teacher!) social networking campaign. I am specifically using free web-based technologies to partially demo what instructors can do without paying for stuff (as long as everyone is willing to

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