Category Archives: teaching

http://www.palimpsest.info

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Ok, MovableType 3 has been installed, and Palimpsest is back up and running on the CHLT server. Those of you who had accounts under the old installation should be able to log in as usual; if you have trouble, please let me know. Those of you who would like to contribute to Palimpsest, send your preferred username and password to my wordherders address. Please help spread the word of this site’s existence where you can.

And if you’d like to volunteer to help out with the design, let me know about that, too.

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instant messaging: the new office hours

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I’d like to hear from others about their experience using instant messaging as a means of interacting with students (or with professors, if you are a student). I put my IM info on all my syllabi, and I tell my students that if they catch me logged in, they can ask me questions, discuss assignments, or just talk about whatever they like. I’m logged in pretty frequently, and I find that I interact with students much more in this way than during live, in-person office hours.

Now, when I was an undergrad myself, I never made use of professors’ office hours: there just never seemed to be a good reason. It seems that I was not unusual given that my students now don’t really drop by very often, either. So I’m wondering:

  1. Do students make use of your in-person office hours?
  2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using IM in addition to traditional office hours?

Cross-posted at Palimpsest.

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rebooting palimpsest

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All previous Palimpsest posts have been imported right here.

I’m working on getting this site going again. Maybe it will be back up on the CHLT server, and maybe it will be somewhere else. I’m doing a test run of TypePad.

The downside of TypePad is this: in order to have multiple authors, you need to get the “pro” account, which costs $14.95 a month. If I could get 11 participants to each pay $14.95 along with me, then we’d have a year of edu-blogging ready to go. What do you say? Alternately, do any of you know of other hosting solutions that would be cheaper?

Regardless of where Palimpsest ends up, I hereby solicity additional participants. It does not matter how experienced a teacher you are. It does not matter if this is your first semester teaching as a grad student, or your 30th semester teaching as a full professor. Let me know if you’re interested.

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reading, writing, and race in kansas city

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I’ll be teaching English 225 again in the Spring, an Honors Program section with an Academic Service Learning component.

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I intend to focus the class on Kansas City history with special attention placed upon race and neighborhoods. Students will fulfill their ASL requirements by taking oral histories from current and former residents of the neighborhood(s) bounded by 49th Street, 63rd, the Paseo, and Oak Street. I don’t yet have a full syllabus or a description, but I’ll use my blog as a placeholder for relevant links as I work on the course design.

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words i need to say

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“You asked a really thoughtful and nuanced question, and I totally screwed up by making a stupid and inappropriate joke that was meant to be at my expense but wasn’t, and I’m very sorry.”

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