Summary: Sometimes it’s hard to write a good letter of reference. time, I have developed a “check list” that I return to students who ask me for a letter.
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I have assigned my “Introduction to Old Testament” students to interview a “real biblical scholar.” Students will collaboratively come up with questions for their interviews during October, and conduct their interviews by phone or Skype in early November. They will then write a report on their interview. Here is how I describe the report to [...]
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Summary: Busy, busy, so it’s RBoC for you.
Filed under: Digital Humanities, Education, RBoC | Tagged: academia, blogging, distance learning, Moodle, productivity, teaching | Leave a Comment »
The newest Teaching Carnival (4.8), by Annie Vocature Bullock, is available! Linking to this edition of the Carnival, ProfHacker Jason B. Jones also fills us in on where it began, and how one can host or contribute to a Teaching Carnival. It is through the Teaching Carnival that I began to get to know most [...]
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Summary: “…you do not talk about Write Club.” Claire P. Curtis at Chronicle.com describes her own productive and well-running writing group. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of Write Club?
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Summary: Not everyone is equally prepared for online learning. What would you want to ask of a prospective online student, to help her make a no-B.S. assessment of whether distance learning is for her? If you have been an online learner, what do you know now about “what it takes” that you didn’t know then?
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