Tag: pedagogy
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The Dissolving Federalist Papers
Still no sign of my ancient copy of The Federalist Papers but for some reason Amazon gave me a 15 dollar discount on a Kindle version of them, so I’m good to go for my super-awesome procrastination plan of reading them through instead of doing any actual work. I feel like a rhetorical defense of…
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An Idea for Using Everyday Photos in Teaching Speech
It’s always usually at the 1/3 of the semester mark that I start to think about the class I’d rather be teaching, rather than the one that I am actually teaching. I keep a notebook of all these ideas for future ways to organize and orient the class, but these ideas never look very good…
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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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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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The Trap of SlideWare in Preparing Online Instruction
Yesterday I started making Google Slides presentations for various reading assignments for my courses. I planned to video some lectures with these, but also providing them as documents on the learning management system (we use Canvas in my shop). As I started making the slides, the amount of work I needed to do kept increasing.…
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Grades are the Finger, Look at the Moon!
“Finger pointing at the Moon” is a famous koan that has been rewritten and offered so many times that the search for the origin of this early teaching lesson might as well be lost. As a koan we can accept it as a case that is worth our investigation, a case that everyone must investigate…
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A Case of Tarmac Rhetoric
It’s Friday night and normally I’m pretty energetic and excited. Tonight I’m worn out, and I think it’s because I spent most of the week working on an essay that I should have done last month. With all the changes and the almost-taking-a-buyout business I can forgive myself the slip this time. After all it’s…
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Required Reading is Draconian and Stupid
Professors, stop requiring reading. Instead, require engagement. Require response. Require conversation. Require a challenge. It seems incredibly sad that I have to say this, but requiring someone to do something because you are an expert or an authority is not how you teach. This is more along the lines of how to be a bad…
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Teaching Online
Teaching online this fall like so many others are. I have been interested in this challenge for years, and volunteered to teach public speaking and other courses online about five or six years ago. What I learned then is that students respond very well to being given a list of tasks and dates they need…
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