Five Reasons to Use Social Media in the Classroom

I've just returned from a few days at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad). I was invited by the campus's Instructional Development Unit (IDU) to deliver the keynote address at the presentation of their biennial UWI / Guardian Life "Premium" Teaching Awards. The theme that they asked me to speak on was … Continue reading Five Reasons to Use Social Media in the Classroom →

Assignment: The “American Century” Geospatial Timeline

For the last several years, I have been interested in representing time and space visually in the context of literature courses. During my final year as a graduate student, I was a fellow in Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching. There, I had the freedom to spend many hours exploring several web widgets for doing just … Continue reading Assignment: The “American Century” Geospatial Timeline →