Author: Pete Rorabaugh

Backchannel Twitter hashtag chat, captured on Storify Occupy Class (www.occupyclass.org) Collab/Google Doc essay, “Why Does Literature Need Computers” A first time Twitter assignment for faculty!…

I oriented 20 Georgia State University faculty members from a number of departments to Twitter on August 3. The group was part of an initiative…

At a faculty discussion this week the topic of a digital humanist turned up. One faculty member turned to another and, behind his hand, remarked…

Experiential learning submerges a class in applied activities that dissolve the boundary between the academy and whatever’s beyond it. Whether as focused simulations, individual ethnographic…

Activity: Imagine your favorite lesson — that day that you look forward to every semester because you are good at it, it yields results, and…

At the risk of extending the metaphor too far, DNA is the earliest version of a new organic being. The DNA becomes a plan, and…

During the content stage of organic writing, we talk in detailed and precise ways about the assignment or lack of one. We pick apart the…

Process-oriented composition instruction works better than instruction focused on products. Most composition teachers agree on this. Given that writing is a complex cognitive activity that…