Author: Steve
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Is a Livestream Class a Good Idea? Doesn’t Seem to be for Me
Not a big fan of the livestreamed class, but I did one anyway yesterday. I don’t really care for the livestream as there’s a lot of stuff that gets in the way of teaching here. Typically I could do a 10 to 15 minute video on a reading and be fine with it. But the…
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A Course Description for a Class About Argumentation
A friend of mine clued me into a new program called Gitbook, which is sort of like a blog, but more of a private journal/documentation site. I signed up for one, but not sure if I am going to use it. It might be a great place to keep notes on the classes I’m currently…
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Don’t Globalize the Journalist Epistemology
The globalization of the scientific epistemology is a daunting problem, but no less significant is the attraction of the journalistic epistemology. They might work hand in hand. The journalistic epistemology is the comfortable, common-sense idea that if you want to know something you go to the place where that thing is happening and you ask…
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Evidence-Based Debate
American policy debate fundamentalists have found a new phrase to martial in their panicked defense of their practices. I don’t know why they feel so threatened; policy debate can easily co-exist with many different debating styles. But fundamentalism ensures that there is an either/or, a very significant conflict where the stakes are the highest they…
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The Fallacy of the Banned Public Speaking Class Topic
Just finished assessing the first round of student speeches for the term and the average grades were around an 88 to 90, high B to low A. This is atypical for me; most first speeches are closer to a C and slowly move up to this point over a course of four to five speeches.…
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Bad Teaching, Bad Graduate Student Mentoring, Bad Pedagogy
There really isn’t such a thing as “graduate student pedagogy,” but I thought I would write about it anyway. I’m always hopeful about it, but I know why it doesn’t exist: People who want to teach graduate students don’t understand how teaching works, they aren’t interested in thinking or talking about teaching, and they also…
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The First Oral Assignments are Turned In and It Seems Like a Lot of Grading
The biggest hazard from teaching online I think is that you get huge waves of grading that have very firm time requirements. If I assign students to prepare a speech 6 minutes long, I have to listen to 40 or so 6 minute speeches. There’s nothing I can do to reduce that amount of time…
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The Maelstrom, Online Pedagogy, and Rhetoric
Following in the footsteps of Marshall McLuhan, I have used Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Maelstrom” as a way to describe rhetorical strategy, kairos, and how argument really works away from all the too-firm theories that are floating around out there. Now I’m thinking that the Maelstrom is a useful metaphor for universities and…
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Doing What Works in Online University Teaching
My last post was about losing the thread, and losing the focus of what the course is about in the sea of technology available to us. I pretty much lost my way 2 days ago working on these very nice powerpoints for my courses. I realized I was spending hours on one reading. How was…
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