Disclaimer: I’m writing this post primarily with my film students in mind, but I would argue the same for non-students.
From what I can tell, most of my film students — who are required to use Twitter this semester — are turning to the Web to tweet. Since this is where …
For three semesters I have attempted to incorporate Twitter into the college classroom, even once relying on the service to arrange a win-a-free-textbook contest for my Film Noir students. But overall, these attempts have failed miserably as the majority of college students — at this point in time anyway — …
Over the weekend, I put the final touches on my course syllabi. I have three this semester: Introduction to Film, Introduction to Film DL (distance learning), and Critical Approaches to Cinema. One part of syllabus-creating that I actually look forward to is figuring out which films my students will watch …
A couple of weeks ago, USA Today‘s pop culture blog featured a guest author, Denise Du Vernay, a lecturer in Humanities and Communications at Milwaukee School of Engineering and co-author of The Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield (she also tweets). For her guest …
About five years ago, I came across a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Notes from a Career in Teaching.” (If you don’t have a Chronicle account, you may read the entire piece here.) In it, the author, a recently retired college …
When I was in college, both undergraduate and graduate school, this is what I knew about the personal lives of my professors:
Many had cats; at least two had dogs.
One spent most of her summers in Italy researching the letters of a sixteenth- (or maybe seventeenth-) century Italian woman.
One smoked cigarettes, …
