Here's the email that went out on Sunday to the full semester English 110: Hi all!  Okay, so we have four class sessions left before we head into finals week. During Finals Week, we do have an online final exam, but it’s not very difficult. Since it’s an online test, we won’t meet in-person during finals week, BUT the last day to hand in ANYTHING will be midnight Wednesday, May 11.  Please use the last four class sessions wisely. Come to class to ask for help, in addition to email or text. If you are caught up and want to finish up things early, go for it; this will allow you to focus on other courses. As always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Here's the email that went out on Sunday to the accelerated English 110: Hi all!  Tomorrow will be a work day for Groups 3 and 4 as well as Large Project 2; those items are due Tuesday night. On Tuesday in class, I'll introduce the last groups and Large Project 3. Essentially, we have seven class sessions left be...

This week isn't seeing anything too wild: We're using today to catch up. Feel free to use class time - and the classroom computers - to work on Group 5 and LP3*. We will not conduct a journal prompt today. *A video introducing LP3 was emailed out last week.

Other OER Textbooks I might one day help create... or something like that...  Dr. Bob (nickname) is our resident chemist on campus; this would be such a cool book, if he had time to create it; right now, he's too busy grading lab reports (weirdo).  Once in a while, we like to break out our dance moves in the hallway, so why not have a textbook built around that theme?  One of the instructors who teaches speech on campus has a very creative vocabulary (and it helps put students at ease as they learn public speaking); I think this cover would encompass his approach.  

The email I just sent out went as follows: //Hello humans! As we discussed last Wednesday, the schedule has been tweaked a wee bit. This week is filled with an   Online Workshop* for LP2   and   Optional In-Class Work Days   for LP2 and Groups 3 and 4. We will not conduct journal prompts this week (that idea seemed so much cooler in theory but oh well). We also bumped back some deadlines, so now Groups 3 and 4 and Large Project 2 are due April 26. Please email me if you have questions or concerns. *As you post in the Workshop, I will give TAG feedback alongside your classmates.🙂//

Full-Semester English 110 : I introduced the many options of Large Project 3 today (and recorded it in the morning session), and that recording was emailed out to the 9am and 3pm students. I'll do a recap next Wednesday of any Groups and Large Project 3. 8-Week English 110 : We moved around some deadlines: Groups 3 and 4 will be due with Large Project 2 on April 26. There will be optional in-class workdays next week for those groups and that large project, in addition to tomorrow's class. Also next week: an online workshop for LP2! Please reach out via email or Google Voice with any questions or concerns!

Last fall, around Labor Day weekend, I randomly got vertigo*. It is severe at times, causing me to bump into walls, feel lots of dizziness, and deal with very strange headaches and nausea. Yep, super fun. It followed me around until after Spring Break, a little over two weeks ago. Then it disappeared. Yep, very odd. Unfortunately, it popped up and reared its ugly head yesterday morning, and it's as if it gained strength while it was "in hiding" those two weeks. {*A theory of mine is that I had covid asymptomatically and vertigo is the after-effect? But who knows.} Anyhow, since I canceled classes yesterday, yet still wanted to see what everyone was up to, I did ask my full-semester English 110 students to email me or text me (Google Voice number in syllabus) and give me an update of where they were at with their projects and groups.  In an email to the accelerated course, I asked them to continue working on anything they hadn't finished yet which could've been Gro...

This last week only saw two days of class sessions (Wednesday was Advising Day and I was out sick Thursday). We used Monday and Tuesday to work on Group 2 and Large Project 2. I think we did one journal prompt on Monday (below) and used the beginning of class Tuesday to complete two quizzes together (one can be found in the Large Project 1 tab; the other in the Large Project 2 tab); they are called Citation Reviews. Do you agree that that is the first step to solving a problem, or to conducting research? Why or why not? Do you agree that you know more than you think you do? Why or why not?

I'm remixing the English 120 book for summer school. I think it's going to be SUCH AN AWESOME upgrade from where it was; this time around, more diverse authors in the readings with a focus on topics found in the wheel of power / privilege. I also hope to add in more questioning of what the definition of any argument is, what it should contain, and how it should be structured.  Remember: Writing is subjective!   I think this cover might be as cool as the one I created for the English 110 OER: