I’m borrowing this concept from NFL.com which uses it to reflect on a slate of games. I teach instead of play, so I will reflect on a slate of classes for 10 minutes or so.
ENG 091 ONLINE
The idea of teaching dev english online has met with a great deal of resistance. The overwhelming opinion of the detractors is that dev students are not equipped to deal with learning from an online environment. This is the result of a great deal of speculation and assumption about the dev community. Many educators come to this opinion through experience. Some don’t. For me it isn’t as black and white as the level may indicate. After all, being selected to be in a dev class means you earned a certain score on a writing test. It says nothing about your life outside of that page.
That being said, I have three students who never even logged in this week. They weren’t built for this and it showed. Others run the standard gamut of dev learning, with some ‘in for’ grammar issues and other lacking basic principles of ENG learning. Too soon to know how this is going to go.
ENG 091 F2F
Same as above in terms of diversity, but I can say these kids are going to need to be eased into the learning because they are throwing some serious shade on the language and its essays. There was talk about writing having little to no value and that doesn’t fly with me.
ENG 102
I’m happiest here this semester because I dove right in and got started. One class is already on the first movie of the semester and the others may catch up this week. Once that is over we are reading Killing Pablo and starting to think about what it really means to write about research or to research itself.
Some Thoughts:
- Only have time to cover classes and not the writer’s life (or the novel writer’s class) before the time hits 0 and still drop thoughts.
- Here’s a thought: I love writing.
- I love a certain lady too.