Month: May 2012

  • Motivating Student Writers

    After reading a reminder about great teachers behind great students, I started thinking about the great teachers who inspired my learning. At one point in my own early education, I was so bored and disenchanted with education (despite some cheerful and well-meaning teachers) that I actively avoided school; if I stayed home “sick,” I could…

  • Jump-Starting Summer Writing with a Writing Residency

    This week, Peter Felten, Michael Strickland, and I are facilitating the annual Faculty Writing Residency for Elon faculty working on scholarship related to teaching and learning. Once a year, we invite faculty to apply for the four-day writing residency, and we typically accept 9 to 15 participants (depending on their writing projects). Then, about a…

  • Summer Writing Goals

    After a stressful academic year (yes, even with a sabbatical this spring), I’m looking forward to a rejuvenating summer. I need to recharge so that I can successfully tackle some new opportunities and energize myself for what promises to be a very busy fall. Yet I also want to make progress on some scholarship projects…