Some Drafty Active Thinking
Invention/Planning/Ideas for Spring 2013
My goal is to begin to flesh out these ideas as blog posts during the semester. Check my Thinking with Crash Blog
Online Textbook Project
Principles of Academic Program Design
- 10-Hours to Life
- All For One and One For All
- Bye Bye What: Learning How and Learning Why
- Living on the Edge
- Why We Need to Run in Place
- The Beauty of Mongrels and Mutts
Fuller descriptions of each of these principles will begin showing up on the blog site soon.
Professional Writing Minor
We are upgrading our new Professional Writing Minor. To begin, this includes:
- Articulating program goals/ objectives
- Proposing new courses
- Mapping program goals, course outcomes, and projects
- Revising all program documents
Fuller descriptions and our planning documents will be made available soon.
Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in a New Age of Austerity
-Denise Tillery, Julie Staggers, and I are in the process of editing a collection of essays on the affects of austerity on technical communication programs
In-Class Activity
Some links to help students explore genre and/or rhetorical context:
Over the Rainbow:
Judy Garland
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Patti LaBelle
Beyonce
Somewhere over the rainbow LIVE
Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole
Somewhere Over The Rainbow Lyrics
Eric Clapton