Teaching & Academic Design

Teaching Challenge: Create Lectures that make Students want to Read the Book! Six (short) Video’s on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

College Classes, Reading Well, Teaching and Academic Design, Video

So, how does a teacher guide students through at book—through (hopefully) engaging and entertaining videos — in a way that encourages thinking, that is encourages students to read, reflect, and respond rigorously without the classroom?

Design Thinking & The Liberal Arts

New Ideas and Research, Teaching and Academic Design

Before COVID-19, I started reading about design thinking because Jamie Turner shared an article about design thinking in K-12 classrooms. What I...

Re-Thinking Resources for the Liberal Arts: Adjunct Addiction

Teaching and Academic Design

We all know that Higher Education’s dependence on adjunct labor is bad. Clearly, the labor conditions for adjuncts are a problem. Despite having...

Fortune 500 Company adopts my Students’ Writing Project

College Classes, News, Teaching and Academic Design

Earlier this month, Joey the Spotted Turtle was adopted by EmNet! After bringing Joey into the world as a class project, my Environmental Literature...

Re-Thinking Resources for the Liberal Arts: Program Design

Teaching and Academic Design

This summer I was tasked with re-imagining the Communication Major at Holy Cross College. The nature of the Communication Major has been unclear for...

Solving Real World Problems with Writing: Introducing Joey the Spotted Turtle!

College Classes, Teaching and Academic Design

For my “Literature and the Environment” class (spring 2018), I tasked my students with a highly open-ended project. As a class community, they...

Lenten Flooding & Education Outside the Classroom

News, Teaching and Academic Design

On February 19th it started raining…and raining…and raining…and raining. Northern Indiana had over six inches in rain in some places. While that’s a...