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The Use Of Eportfolios To Support First Year Student's Metacognitive Thinking, Katie Sabourin, Barbara Lowe, James Bowman
The Use Of Eportfolios To Support First Year Student's Metacognitive Thinking, Katie Sabourin, Barbara Lowe, James Bowman
Educational Technology Publications
Select freshman writing courses at St. John Fisher College are piloting the use of eportfolios in place of the traditional portfolios. The College has created templates that are designed so direct links between course work, goals, and student reflections are explicit. The intent of our study is to evaluate the differences in student’s reflective writing from a variety of freshman level writing courses, including both those using eportfolios and those using traditional paper portfolios. Using a rubric that evaluates student reflections on their understanding of purpose, significance, and relevancy, as well as the student’s overall performance, we will share the …
Rhetorics Of Invitation And Refusal In Terry Tempest Williams's The Open Space Of Democracy, Jill Swiencicki
Rhetorics Of Invitation And Refusal In Terry Tempest Williams's The Open Space Of Democracy, Jill Swiencicki
English Faculty/Staff Publications
This essay aims to break through an impasse in scholarship about the uses and limits of invitational rhetoric for social change. After analyzing the arguments about invitational approaches to communication, the essay focuses on a case (concerning freedom of expression after September 11) wherein invitations to listen have been refused. In examining the refusal stage of the invitational encounter, I find that what interlocutors chose to do after being refused is as important as the gesture of invitation itself. The choice to publicize refusals to listen, for example, reveals previously unconsidered ways that invitational rhetoric succeeds in getting marginalized points …
Doing A Lot With A Little: Making Digital Humanities Work At A Small College, Deborah Vanderbilt
Doing A Lot With A Little: Making Digital Humanities Work At A Small College, Deborah Vanderbilt
English Faculty/Staff Publications
I'm interested in how one goes about integrating digital tools into the liberal arts, and my perspective is that of a long-time faculty member in a small department at a small school. The common wisdom is that today's students know and can do more than most faculty in all things digital, and we need merely provide opportunities for them to use those skills. But that's not true for many students. Our department's newest faculty member has a specialty in digital media, specifically gamification. And although many students are flocking to her classes, she's also encountering resistance from some English majors: …
Translation And Community In The Work Of Elizabeth Cary, Deborah Uman
Translation And Community In The Work Of Elizabeth Cary, Deborah Uman
English Faculty/Staff Publications
Explores the role of female community within Elizabeth Cary's translations and her play, The Tragedy of Mariam.