This, the first post of the new semester, will be very brief. But one thing I learned at the MLA a few weeks ago is that people are, in fact, reading this blog, and finding it useful. So I want to make one, important point: If you want to control the enrollment in your courses,
This will be my last post for the semester and, appropriately, I’ll use it to talk about finals, and one of the assignments I used in my upper-level class. The major assignment for my Dickens and Childhood class was a pretty standard term paper. But I also asked students to contribute to Wikipedia, an assignment
The academic cycle requires us to always be thinking about what’s coming next. Before I even interviewed for my current position, I knew the courses I would be teaching, both fall courses and spring courses. I signed up for teaching times way back in September (the department was helpful on that score, allowing me to