Newsletter, 3 March 2005
- Faculty News
- ARIELLE GREENBERG
- Arielle will be reading at Beloit College in WI and participating in a panel discussion of women and poetry there in the beginning of April.
- AMY HAWKINS
- Amy has been invited to present this June at the 20th Anniversary of Computers in the Writing Intensive Classroom (CIWIC).
- SARAH ODISHOO
- Sarah has had a short story accepted at 13th Moon, SUNY Albany, NY. Sarah will also be listed next year in the 25th Anniversary Edition Who's Who Among American Women.
- JEAN PETROLLE
- Jean's essay, "The Virtual Reality Film as Popular Theology" was presented as part of the religion section at the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM, in February 2005.
- BRENDAN RILEY
- Brendan has been elected to serve on the Board of the National Popular Culture Association starting at the end of March 2005.
- WHITNEY SCOTT
- Whitney has been inducted into the Society of Midland Authors.
- TONY TRIGILIO
- Tony's poem "Elegy for a Poet" was published in the latest issue of the online magazine BIG BRIDGE, as part of a feature on the elegy. The magazine is at http://www.bigbridge.org/.
- DAVID TRINIDAD
- David has two poems, "To Arielle and the Moon" and "Who's There?", in the current issue of WASHINGTON SQUARE, NYU's literary journal. He has also had four poems published in the online journal SOFTBLOW: http://www.softblow.com/. D uring the first week of February David also gave a poetry reading at Florida International University and has participated in several group readings in Chicago this month.
- Please join me in congratulating members of our department who have recently
published, presented, or otherwise dazzled. I am also pleased to introduce
Brendan Riley's new regular feature on technology.
- Tech/Ped Corner: Technology, Pedagogy, and You
Greetings! As your new Technology and Pedagogy Coordinator, I hereby open the Tech/Ped Corner, your monthly resource for tips, tricks, techniques, and tools you can use in your classroom. Sometimes I'll address a question I've encountered in the last month, or I might just explore an idea or technique that's come to my attention. I hope to make this "column" a useful forum for you to find answers and explore the ways technology can enhance your classes.
Speaking of forums, I've just barreled into our topic for the month: OASIS forums. OASIS' homegrown discussion boards, the forums, allow you to post topics and threads for your students to read; your students, in turn, can post threads and respond both to your comments and to each others'. Best of all, if you decide to grade the forums, you can use the "search" tool to find a specific student's posts for a specific time period. This makes it very easy to keep track of student participation.
- Some tips for the forums:
- In the beginning part of the semester, model the posting style you would like your students to use. (Thanks, Sharing Cultures Team!)
- If you want your students to post throughout the week, use staggered due dates, and post your responses throughout the week as well. (Thanks, Terence!)
The forums are a great place to encourage tangential conversation. If you ask students about culture or other external events, you can use those responses to draw connections between in-class work and external sources and events.
Whew! If you have questions about using the OASIS forums or ideas/questions for future editions of the Tech/Ped Corner, please don't hesitate to contact me by emailing briley [at] colum.edu or calling x8817. You can always just pop into my office too.
See you next month! Brendan
Department newsletter compiled by M. Killian McCurrie.
