<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>pedagogy &amp; teaching @ revisionspiral.blog-city.com</title><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/</link><description>(pedagogy &amp; teaching) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 revisionspiral.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:05:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>pedagogy &amp; teaching @ revisionspiral.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Response to Karen Kopelson&apos;s &quot;Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/please_enter_a_titleresponse_to_karen_kopelsons_splittin.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/please_enter_a_titleresponse_to_karen_kopelsons_splittin.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=please%5Fenter%5Fa%5Ftitleresponse%5Fto%5Fkaren%5Fkopelsons%5Fsplittin</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s carnival time!Before I read an article in CCC, I like to read the editor&rsquo;s intro of it in her &ldquo;from the editor&rdquo; note at the beginning of the journal. Oddly, although Kopelson&rsquo;s essay seems like one that will generate]]></description><category>composition</category></item><item><title>the rhetoric of uncool (or, FYC is stuck in a past of paper)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_rhetoric_of_uncool_or_fyc_is_stuck_in_a_past_of_paper.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_rhetoric_of_uncool_or_fyc_is_stuck_in_a_past_of_paper.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Frhetoric%5Fof%5Funcool%5For%5Ffyc%5Fis%5Fstuck%5Fin%5Fa%5Fpast%5Fof%5Fpaper</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the end of his book The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media, Jeff Rice asks a series of interesting questions: Is writing still the dominance of alphabetic notation, or does writing include imagery as well? Is writing the teaching]]></description><category>academia</category><category>books</category><category>composition</category><category>teaching</category><category>writing</category></item><item><title>can you trust wikipedia?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/can_you_trust_wikipedia.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/can_you_trust_wikipedia.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=can%5Fyou%5Ftrust%5Fwikipedia</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This system purports to compute the trustworthiness of wikipedia entries. The site explains how &quot;trust&quot; is computed . . . pretty interesting concept. I wonder how this type of system could be used to measure trustworthiness of peer comments]]></description><category>teaching</category><category>peerresponse</category><category>wikipedia</category><category>technology</category></item><item><title>great grading advice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/great_grading_advice.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/great_grading_advice.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=great%5Fgrading%5Fadvice</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I love Angry Professor&rsquo;s recent post on secret grading scales. It&rsquo;s brilliant, actually, in my humble opinion. The beauty of it is that students work harder on their finals, the instructor doesn&rsquo;t have to sweat &ldquo;bumping up&rdq]]></description><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>RSA report, belated</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rsa_report_belated.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rsa_report_belated.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rsa%5Freport%5Fbelated</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My first RSA conference was excellent and I will certainly attend again. I went to a number of thought-provoking sessions. One small complaint: some sessions were scheduled for 1 hour and 45 minutes or even two hours. Am I the only one who has a hard]]></description><category>academia</category><category>composition</category><category>conference</category></item><item><title>conversation with student</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/conversation_with_student.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/conversation_with_student.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=conversation%5Fwith%5Fstudent</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Me: I&rsquo;m sorry, Student, but it looks like you&rsquo;ve failed the course. The zeroes on three assignments and low scores on several others really hurt your point total. Student: Thanks for working with me. I really learned a lot in your class.]]></description><category>students</category></item><item><title>on not commenting on students&apos; final projects</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/on_not_commenting_on_students_final_projects.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/on_not_commenting_on_students_final_projects.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 04:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=on%5Fnot%5Fcommenting%5Fon%5Fstudents%5Ffinal%5Fprojects</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The last few years I&rsquo;ve been moving away from writing commentary on student work and moving towards recording audio comments and conferencing. I&rsquo;m making this move for a number of reasons: Students seem more interesting in listening to au]]></description><category>audio_commentary</category><category>composition</category><category>student_work</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>how I used blogs in my composition 2 class this semester</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/how_i_used_blogs_in_my_composition_2_class_this_semester.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/how_i_used_blogs_in_my_composition_2_class_this_semester.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 02:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=how%5Fi%5Fused%5Fblogs%5Fin%5Fmy%5Fcomposition%5F2%5Fclass%5Fthis%5Fsemester</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Joanna asked me to elaborate on how I used blogs in my comp 2 class. . . My class meets in a regular classroom, rather than a computer lab, but I arranged to have a laptop cart in class everyday (there were three days during the semester when we coul]]></description><category>blogging</category><category>composition</category><category>technology</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>notes on spring 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/notes_on_spring_2008.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/notes_on_spring_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 03:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=notes%5Fon%5Fspring%5F2008</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With one and a half weeks of classes left, I&rsquo;m beginning to reflect on this semester&rsquo;s classes and think about changes to make for next semester. I have required my comp I students to keep response logs for four or five years now. Student]]></description><category>reflection</category><category>composition</category><category>students</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>instructors who complain about students (a rant)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/instructors_who_complain_about_students_a_rant.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/instructors_who_complain_about_students_a_rant.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=instructors%5Fwho%5Fcomplain%5Fabout%5Fstudents%5Fa%5Frant</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I mentioned in one of my Telecoop posts how irritated I become when instructors make disparaging comments about students, and this seems to be the point in the semester when many instructors feel the need to bash students. Oooooh, this makes me mad.]]></description><category>students</category><category>teaching</category><category>whining</category><category>work</category><category>academia</category></item><item><title>Friday&apos;s impossible to do list</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/fridays_impossible_to_do_list.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/fridays_impossible_to_do_list.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fridays%5Fimpossible%5Fto%5Fdo%5Flist</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Have coffee and unbelievably delicious cinnamon rolls with a friend. Attend a four hour working lunch for the Honors Program. Have coffee with a former student. Find a really great translation exercise my poetry teacher from ISU, Lucia Getsi, introdu]]></description><category>audio_commentary</category><category>coffee</category><category>gtd</category><category>organizing</category><category>teaching</category><category>technology</category><category>textbook</category></item><item><title>thank you</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/thank_you.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/thank_you.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thank%5Fyou</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Someone left this outside my office a couple weeks ago: The accompanying&nbsp;typed note read Liz, This is just a small token of my gratitude, for all the support and education you have given me in the past classes. Anonymous.]]></description><category>students</category><category>teaching</category><category>mystery</category></item><item><title>two things done and it&apos;s not even 11</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_things_done_and_its_not_even_11.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_things_done_and_its_not_even_11.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=two%5Fthings%5Fdone%5Fand%5Fits%5Fnot%5Feven%5F11</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I posted my Comp 1 students&#39; audio essays. I had hoped to post them a week or so ago, but I was out of file storage space on my blog, which leads me to thing #2 that I got done. . . . I opened a free account with MediaFire, a free file storing/sh]]></description><category>audio_essays</category><category>technology</category><category>student_work</category></item><item><title>R.B.O. Telecoop</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rbo_telecoop.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rbo_telecoop.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rbo%5Ftelecoop</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Telecoop has officially changed its name to eLearning Consortium of Colorado. The name change was rolled out at lunch today with a video homage to Star Wars that I hope will be posted on the Telecoop, oops, I mean eLCC, Website. Someone at the confer]]></description><category>academia</category><category>composition</category><category>conference</category><category>education</category><category>students</category><category>teaching</category><category>technology</category><category>telecoop</category><category>weather</category><category>places</category><category>elcc</category></item><item><title>forecast for Telecoop</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/forecast_for_telecoop.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/forecast_for_telecoop.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=forecast%5Ffor%5Ftelecoop</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Looks like I&#39;ll be packing layers and my winter coat.]]></description><category>conference</category><category>weather</category><category>telecoop</category><category>travel</category></item><item><title>to do in the next two days</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/to_do_in_the_next_two_days.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/to_do_in_the_next_two_days.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=to%5Fdo%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fnext%5Ftwo%5Fdays</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The end of the semester is in sight, which is both a good thing (I&rsquo;m tired and would love to get caught up on sleep, not to mention I need to get my garden in order, finish Donald Hall&rsquo;s memoir of life with Jane Kenyon, which I began a mo]]></description><category>academia</category><category>books</category><category>composition</category><category>conference</category><category>gardening</category><category>health</category><category>teaching</category><category>telecoop</category><category>textbook</category></item><item><title>Bauerlein dismissive (oops, that&apos;s not news)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/bauerlein_dismissive_oops_thats_not_news.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/bauerlein_dismissive_oops_thats_not_news.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bauerlein%5Fdismissive%5Foops%5Fthats%5Fnot%5Fnews</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Others&nbsp;have&nbsp;commented&nbsp;far more eloquently than I can on Mark Bauerlein&rsquo;s recent Chronicle article, &ldquo;Stop Pushing Yourself,&rdquo; so rather than trying to be eloquent or address the entirety of Bauerlein&rsquo;s ignorance,]]></description><category>academia</category><category>cccc</category><category>composition</category><category>community_college</category><category>stupidity</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>RBOC, midweek edition</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_midweek_edition.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_midweek_edition.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rboc%5Fmidweek%5Fedition</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This week I had to do something I never imagined I would have to do. I filed an official report with the Campus Police stating that my hand grenade has been stolen. Yes, that&rsquo;s right. My hand grenade has been stolen. Luckily, I didn&rsquo;t hav]]></description><category>whatever</category><category>work</category><category>whining</category><category>stupidity</category><category>writingcenter</category><category>lily</category></item><item><title>Using Ethnographic Maps in Instructor Observations</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/using_ethnographic_maps_in_instructor_observations.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/using_ethnographic_maps_in_instructor_observations.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=using%5Fethnographic%5Fmaps%5Fin%5Finstructor%5Fobservations</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I haven&rsquo;t blogged in over a week, partly because I&rsquo;ve been so busy with part-timer evaluations. I&rsquo;ve observed five part-timers teaching in the past two weeks and met with each for a discussion afterward. As Part-Time Lead, I observe]]></description><category>parttimelead</category><category>teaching</category></item><item><title>new tech toy - Amazon Kindle</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/new_tech_toy__amazon_kindle.htm</guid><link>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/new_tech_toy__amazon_kindle.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Ftech%5Ftoy%5F%5Famazon%5Fkindle</comments><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Late last semester, the English department decided to buy two Amazon Kindles and figure out if there are any interesting teaching applications for them. Each of the full-time faculty will have a chance to play with a Kindle for a while and report bac]]></description><category>books</category><category>technology</category><category>teaching</category></item></channel></rss>