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How Do Students Evaluate Class Activities?
I got a new GoPro so what better way to break it in than to walk and talk through something on my mind about teaching. I think what explains the lack of student motivation best is that they have only one measure to evaluate things in this world: entertainment. Is it entertaining? If not, they…
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Up Early With a Dog
My life has radically changed since I was last blogging. I moved to the suburbs, got a dog, a partner, a car, and I’m up before the sun. My partner gets up early for work so I get up pretty early too. I think it’s nice to have some time in the morning together. As…
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Engaging the creative works of creators who are problematic
I was invited on the Essence of Wonder podcast last weekend to participate in a very interesting and stimulating discussion about whether we should engage with the works of authors and creators who have expressed problematic viewpoints. I really enjoyed the thoughtful conversation. It raised a lot of new ways to think about the issue…
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New Rhetoric Lecture Videos on my YouTube and Vimeo Channels
Still struggling through the question of whether or not YouTube is a good place to host lecture videos for American students who often have to pay thousands of dollars anyway to take a course. I am sure I would resent having to watch advertisements before or during a video that provided important discussion of concepts…
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Abandoning Facebook, Instagram, and their Derivatives
Blue State Coffee Pour from Professor Steve Llano, Ph.D. on Vimeo. For the greater part of a year I put a short video like this one up every morning on my social media – mostly on Snapchat, since that’s what my students used at the time. They loved it and we’d talk about the different…
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Classroom Podcasting or Video Lectures?
Still struggling with this question. The arguments for podcasting are a lot more persuasive to me: Audio is small, easy to produce at a high quality, easy to transport, upload, download, playable on any device a student could possibly have around them (including ancient computers) and you can do other things while you are listening…
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The Problem with My Lecture Videos
I thought I’d start out this semester by offering students a number of 10 to 12 minute videos on different topics. It did not turn out that way. Most of the videos I’ve made have been 20 minutes or more. And for my Argumentation course, the videos are always around 40 minutes. I’m not sure…
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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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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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Worlds Debate, Instant Replay, Tech Fantasies
It’s the middle of the government whip speech in a semifinal debate. A POI is raised about something that the Member conceded. The whip disagrees in his answer to this POI and the questioner turns and points to the back of the room – points at the video camera recording the debate. The whip says,…
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