Introducing Bubbl.us

Here's my BUBBL.US version of the clustering/mapping that I did on the classroom whiteboard on Monday. I'm brainstorming here about the reading and writing classes I remember taking from my 9th grade year in high school through my first 2 college writing classes. Here's the link. And here's the embedded version.

eFolioMinnesota: An Emerging Assignment

For my Fall 2010 ENGL 0950 classes, we will be exploring the potential uses of eFolioMinnesota, along with initial advantages and disadvantages.

We will consider the use of eFolioMinnesota in our particular class, along with use after this class has ended.

We will also consider comparisons to other digital "tools" or "products" that might be used for portfolios, such as blogs (e.g., Blogger), MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

For now, however, here are some of the most important links:

eFolioMinnesota

Minnesota Satellite and Technology (MnSAT)

Dr. Helen Barrett's Home Page

The REFLECT Initiative

An Initial Tutorial at YouTube



More later!

More Education Videos

Here are two more videos that I might use for my writing classes--for discussion and/or for research.

The first is about a professor supposedly smashing a student's laptop!



The second is about "Your First College Year." I found out about it in a book the ARCC faculty are reading in preparation for the 2010-11 academic year:

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future: Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30, by Mark Bauerlein (New York: Tarcher-Penguin, 2009, p. ___).

When I followed the link, however, there wasn't a video there. Here's another related link that actually appears to be the same page.
More later!

Online Glossary of Usage

Hello all!

I'm looking for recommendations for an online "Glossary of Usage."

Such a glossary is usually found near the end of a typical, printed writing handbook, and these books are usually used in a Freshman Writing (or First-Year Writing or Composition) course.

I, however, have abandoned these handbooks--for reasons I can write about later--and am using the MLA Handbook in my courses. The MLA Handbook, however, does NOT have a glossary of usage.

Any suggestions? Would the Purdue OWL have something like this? The St. Cloud State U. WritePlace?

Thanks!

In Cold Blood - Minnesota Monthly - January 2010 - Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota

Since I'm too busy and too cheap to actually subscribe to this magazine -- OK, all right, I did subscribe at one time, but . . . hmm -- I'm providing the link to a good article for my Minnesota Writers class at Anoka Ramsey Community College:

In Cold Blood - Minnesota Monthly - January 2010 - Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota