m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

For your reading pleasure, I offer this month’s teaching carnival.
You’ll find many good posts on reading:
In Reading Without Steroids, Working Blue asks what kind of reader are you? Meanwhile, at Techsophist, Lanette Cadle talks of Rereading, revisiting, especially about making connections while reading, now and in seminars past. Then, Rebecca Moore Howard offers [...]

As an instructor, one of the things that I’m doing differently this year is to tell more stories. I’ve worked at a number of different places including Verizon and Southern Methodist University. However, I’ve also worked for a car dealership, the State Attorney’s Office in Clearwater, Florida, a bank, and a distribution company. [...]

via: S. who sent me a link to Holons: News From the Integral World and from there, I clicked to Steve Pavlina’s blog and then to his wife Erin’s blog where I found her article on Unconditional Love.
After I read her article on

the dry spell. I haven’t felt much in the mood to write. I’ve started several posts, but then, I think to myself, oh, they don’t want to hear about that…or, I don’t want to talk about that yet. So what to say?
I’m almost done with my summer class. The last class [...]

I really enjoyed reading all the great Teaching Carnival posts last year. Head on over to Workbook for the schedule for this coming year and to volunteer to host one.

June 7, 2006
Talking to Colleagues and Administrators
Gail Hawisher (or here) and Kris Blair (or here or here) led this first session of the morning.
Kris talked about electronic thesis and dissertations at Bowling Green. Gail talked about a writing with video course.
Kris assumes that everyone agrees that we want to integrate multimodal composing [...]

via Weblogs in Higher Ed
Corporate blogging article that I might use for class discussion/readings in my 2030 Professional Writing class. Also, when I have more time, I want to check out their other free advice (columns, weekly advice, and white papers).

Brian Huot and Cindy were the next speakers of the day. They spoke about Assessing Digital and Multimodal Texts.
Wow! Already I’m thinking Huot is a good speaker. He is moving throughout the room and making eye contact with everyone. Cool!
They began with a 5-minute activity where they asked us [...]

The first speaker this morning spoke about accessibility. He had a webpage demonstration that illustrated the problems that some users might have with websites and applications. For example, movies that don’t have adequate sound, text displayed with inappropriate background and text colors, text that scrolled too fast, text that is too small, etc. [...]

The following are my notes from this morning.
In class discussion this morning, Mary Hocks and Scott DeWitt both emphasized that it would be easier if we add one digital assignment to our classes rather than change them completely all at once.
Where to start with Multimodal Composing and Where to Go
Mary Hocks
During her talk, various people [...]