by henningsent | Aug 17, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
In July, two COD writing students were featured on Wikipedia’s Education blog for work they had done in my summer composition classroom. One of those students, a Navy veteran and self-described technophobe, created a Wikipedia article — from scratch — on...
by zawlockia | Aug 14, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
Here’s a scary thought: 24 percent of teens reported being online “almost all of the time” (Hawkins, 2015, p. 43). What’s even scarier: these are the students that are going to be sitting in your classes, not only today, but for many more years to come! So...
by boonec | Aug 11, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
Being a teacher is a lot like being an artist: it takes a good deal of both hubris and humility. One must know something others ought to know and the hubris to profess it (hence the penultimate title). But a teacher must also have the humility to remain a student in...
by geigerj | Aug 3, 2015 | Faculty Focus, Featured
Full-time Speech faculty set a goal of increasing collaboration and sharing resources with adjunct faculty. We developed an online course shell to be used in the introductory Speech course that helps us meet those goals. Here’s what we learned from the process....