This article proves a point I often make, which is that there are no right answers. I’m excited to add it to my introduction-to-research unit.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
17 Personal Essays That Will Change Your Life
“Think essays are just something boring you write for class?” I love it when the Internet takes away all need to pull out my hair making decisions over what additional reading to recommend. This round-up of CNF essays was written just for my first semester Comp students.
New Year, New Routine
Today I stood at the head of a classroom, presenting information about NOVA’s Technology Applications Center to new adjuncts. This was a change of pace for me after teaching only online classes for the past academic year. I actually had to get dressed and leave the house to meet my class!
This fall I’ll be teaching 3 hybrid sections of Composition I (ENG 111), and I’m also the new Annandale campus Technology Applications Center (TAC) mentor, which means I’ll be working with faculty and staff on technology training. I’m excited about this new development because it means I’ll be working with faculty from all disciplines, not just English, and I’m always excited to help my colleagues, since collaboration often leads to new inspiration in my own courses.
I’m also getting ready to present at a technology teaching conference in October. I’ll be talking about mobile apps similarly to the sessions I gave at the VA Blackboard Users Conference at George Masson University last fall and the Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference (PUP) at NOVA last winter. The big difference is going to be location: this time I’m flying to Atlanta!
What a lot of running around this year will be.