Biweekly Game Based Learning in English 101 Research Question: What is the effect of holding biweekly game-based learning activities in English 101 and what can these activities tell us about the comprehension levels and preferred learning methods of collegiate students? Scholarly Discourse in Writing Studies: Game Based Learning has recently made a come-back in academics. […]
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“Using Digital Rhetoric in a Multimodal Assignment to Disrupt Traditional Academic Writing: Conventions in a First-Year Writing Classroom” – Melanie Gagich, Cleveland State University
Citation: Gagich, Melanie. “Using Digital Rhetoric in a Multimodal Assignment to Disrupt Traditional Academic Writing: Conventions in a First-Year Writing Classroom /.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 11 June 2018, https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/using-digital-rhetoric-in-a-multimodal-assignment-to-disrupt-traditional-academic-writing-conventions-in-a-first-year-writing-classroom/. Summary: Melanie Gagich, proposes a new way of integrating multimodal, digital rhetoric into the first-year writing classroom. Gagich argues that […]
Prioritizing Community and Discourse within the Classroom
Within my classroom, I place value upon passion. Sometimes, it is difficult for students to find excitement in the curriculum or subject matter, and I believe it is the responsibility of the instructor to find the ways in which they can bring forth students’ excitement and passions in relation to the classroom. This is sometimes […]
Prescribed Experience and the Institution
There’s something of English 101 that reminds me of the Greek prescription of military service. There was, in ancient Greek culture, common ground between all people that could be drawn upon in politics, religion, philosophy and theater because every citizen male was required to serve time in the military. In an age and culture that […]
Ecosystem or Solar System?
At the outset, the word ecosystem, especially in regards to a classroom setting where there are power dynamics at play, brings to my mind images of the forest or the ocean. I mean this in the sense that there is a hierarchy of animals with the goal of survival in mind. Necessarily, in this scenario, […]
English 101 Town
My classroom consists of a multitude of moving parts, and I often act as the Mayor of English 101 Town, assigning small projects and jobs to my many wonderful citizens who then complete these jobs in small groups, or individually. I think of myself as the mayor of this town because I try not to […]