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
Tomorrow is the last day of classes, and the semester has gone by remarkably quickly. Before Thanksgiving I posted about next semester, discussing some of the plans I have and some of the changes I’ll be making based on my experience this fall. Today I want to quickly cover a topic I’ve been thinking about
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