m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

This morning, I stumbled across this tutorial: Creating Podcasts with QuickTime 7 Pro at Apple. An “audio input device is required.” I guess that would mean a microphone.
I’ve also observed that there are digital voice recorders for about the cost of a textbook –such as the VN240 at Olympus. Of course, [...]

Over at Earth Wide Moth, Derek talks about his plans for teaching a professional writing course in the Fall. He asks what is missing. I don’t know about what’s missing, but I’ll be following his post as I will also be teaching a professional writing course in the Fall for the first time. [...]

Mary Beth Sullivan, msulliv4 AT kent DOT edu, joined others from Kent State (Elizabeth Feltner, Pamela Takayoshi, and Patrick Thomas) in a presentation on Mediating Composition Instruction Through multimodality. Sullivan provided a bibliography handout: “Towards a Multimodal Pedagogy: Connecting Classical Rhetoric and New Media.” She has 26 different references that I am going [...]

Bump Halbritter, an instructor at Stanford, gave a presentation at the Computers and Writing Conference that I want to remember. He talked about his assignment sequence as “Complexity via Simplification.” He begins with a traditional research essay, and then has students move to a simplified version for a non-academic audience. At this [...]

You know you’re a redneck when…
- you take your 4th grader out of school on the first day of hunting season.
In class today many teachers talked about how they often have students miss class on the first day of hunting season, or multiple days during the season. 4th Grade students. Aren’t these students [...]

I’ll have more to write about the Computers and Writing conference, but for now I want to capture what one of the people in the MWP said this morning.
A. gave her presentation today in the MWP. Something she said really made an impact on me. She is a teacher of 32 years and [...]

Collin’s post, Screencasting as the new FYC?, has me thinking about all that is possible when teaching first year composition in a writing classroom.
I’m also reading Engaging Ideas by John Bean for one of the papers I’m writing and when I opened it this morning, right on page one, something Bean said back in 1996 [...]

What is the function of the composition course?
The function of first-year composition at Mizzou is to teach students to write for academic situations. When I answered this question at the beginning of the semester, I did not realize how much depends on where it is taught and who is doing the teaching. We’re [...]

I stopped in and checked my mailbox this evening on my way home from the library. I am going to be teaching one section of English 1000 (First-Year Composition) and one section of English 2030 (Professional Writing). I. AM. SO. EXCITED.
Here’s my Tuesday/Thursday teaching schedule
TR 11-12:15, English 1000/74
TR 12:30-1:45, English 2030/2
Then, I’ll be [...]

I have to remember Keri and Amy’s Lesson on multiple voices. As an in-class activity, they suggested that students write in two or more voices and take different sides on issues. On one side of the paper students take one position and on the right side of the page, students take an alternative [...]