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Heads up, y’all, ’cause at some point today, History Carnival XXXVII will appear at Mode for Caleb. Update: Whoomp, as they say, there it is.

And on September 1, I’ll be hosting Teaching Carnival #11. Please tag any relevant entries or gmail me with the links: georgehwilliams. You can tag or send your own entries, or those written by others. I’ll repeat some of the things I wrote before…

Any and all topics are welcome, but I thought I’d throw out a call for some specific things, too. Please do me two favors: post an announcement regarding TC #11 on your blog, and email a few bloggers you know who might be unaware of the Teaching Carnival series.

  1. What are you doing differently this year compared to last year? Why?
  2. What kind of preparation for teaching did you get in grad school? Was it adequate? What should have been done differently? How are you preparing the next generation of grad students for the classroom? How does the way you were taught affect the way you teach?
  3. What sorts of innovative writing assignments are you using? I am particularly interested in disciplines other than English, since I believe that writing should be a part of almost all courses. How do you evaluate your students’ writing? Do you use a rubric?
  4. Are your students engaged in service learning? What kinds of connections between the classroom and the community are you making?
  5. How does information technology figure into your teaching?
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call for carnies: tc #11

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Now that the schedule for the next few months is set, it’s time to start thinking and writing again about teaching in higher education. One month from today, I’ll host Teaching Carnival #11. Please email me with your nominations of worthy posts on this topic, and/or you can tag relevant posts in order to nominate them or to contribute to Teaching Carnival Backstage.

Any and all topics are welcome, but I thought I’d throw out a call for some specific things, too. Please do me two favors: post a link to this call for carnies on your blog, and email a few bloggers you know who might be unaware of the Teaching Carnival series.

  1. What are you doing differently this year compared to last year? Why?
  2. What kind of preparation for teaching did you get in grad school? Was it adequate? What should have been done differently? How are you preparing the next generation of grad students for the classroom? How does the way you were taught affect the way you teach?
  3. What sorts of innovative writing assignments are you using? I am particularly interested in disciplines other than English, since I believe that writing should be a part of almost all courses. How do you evaluate your students’ writing? Do you use a rubric?
  4. Are your students engaged in service learning? What kinds of connections between the classroom and the community are you making?
  5. How does information technology figure into your teaching?

Feel free to ignore my suggestions and come up with your own topics.

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2006-2007 teaching carnival series

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Last year’s series of Teaching Carnivals went very well due to the excellent efforts of nine volunteers (plus me) who gathered hundreds of individual blog posts related to teaching in higher education. I’d like to start lining up hosts for the forthcoming year, and I believe we can start hosting these once every two weeks.

If you are interested in hosting, gmail me at georgehwilliams. I would also greatly appreciate it if you would post a notice on your own blog letting people know I’m looking for volunteer hosts.

Previous Carnivals:

Update. The following are (roughly) the dates for future Teaching Carnivals. Let me know if you are interesting in hosting on a particular date:

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