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 how to read a book. You might also want to check out the following post from No Fancy Name: today the freshmen will be reading …. Also, vitia ponders reading choices for an assignment on bias.

Do it now:
Please take a minute and respond to this survey. Julie puts out a call to all rhet/comp instructors to answer a survey of grading/response styles for a grad student project.

And, speaking of response styles, you might want to check out this post from Reassigned Time on grading essays in which Dr. Crazy explains the checklist used.

Encouraging responsibility:
David Silver talks about responsibility in show and tell: Don’t forget to bring the videos! Also on the subject of responsibility, in Thinking, Teaching, Writing: Observation Day, Holly declares Observation Day in an attempt to encourage students to pay attention. In addition, Geeky Mom reflects on making students responsible for discussion on the course blog. Mommy, Ph.D. wonders about how to get the blogs in composition class going. On that subject, from the CWRL comes, Steps toward a Successful Classroom Blog.

Questions/Ideas:
On the other hand, at digital digs: economics of student attention, Alex Reid wonders how we might design our classes for the disengaged student.

You might also want to consider Visual Design of/and Argument by Spencer Schaffner, who asks why we ask students to write the way we do.

In addition, you might take a look at Modes, Modes, More Modes: Pedagogy of Obligation where Jeff Rice critiques a found syllabi.

Or, for those of you who haven’t yet tried holding virtual office hours, academhack points the way to This Digital Life where Michael talks about using IM and doing just that.

Schenectady Synedoche offers up for comments a collaborative research worksheet she is using in her grad class in authorship. New Kid on the Hallway asks for suggestions on mid-term teaching evaluations, and see the follow up post on how it went. Plus, Historianess posts her syllabus for next semester: Sex Lies, and Depositions.

On Writing and Research:
The Long Eighteenth asks what kinds of research can we ask of undergrads? While, ADM talks about the challenges and necessity of teaching writing in history class.

From Kairosnews, check out Writing Skills Singled Out.

A Delicate Boy sits right back and enjoys it now. Also enjoying things, scribblingwoman says, This may seem obvious, but why not give out interesting writing assignments: Written Assignment #1: Medieval genres and tropes–ones that are enjoyable to read!

On revising (or not):
Ferule & Fescue wonders what to do about a student’s lack of revision. Also on the subject of revision, Bardiac talks about an exercise in class on making revisions.

On Being Tested:
See Mike Edward’s post about a recent in-class assignment regarding plagiarism: Scissors, Paper, Rock…which will it be? Meanwhile, at See Jane Compute, she also talks of being tested in class. And now this at Ferule & Fescue, or even this: students, they come and they go on the ways we’re tested and choose to respond.

CultureCat discusses a Chronicle article on classes in the library, especially on the points of research skills and issues of classroom control.

Quod She wonders, how much Middle English spelling can students take? Or: on choosing an edition of Malory.

More on Plagiarism:
Kairosnews: More on the Web about Turnitin and Plagiarism Detection. Check out Mommy, Ph.D.: what I like about Turnitin.com. Or, you might even try, Confessions of a Community College Dean: Thoughts on Turnitin.com.

Or just check out being Sneaky.

Then, at Terminal Degree, you might find this post timely: How to email a professor, as well as this post on the excuses written by students who offer TMI as seen at Mansion of Many Apartments.

Also from Terminal Degree comes Moments that Make it All Worthwhile. You might also like to read Ferule & Fescue, on loving one’s students or even about their dreaming of us at A Delicate Boy.

Finally, on Adventures in Ethics and Science, you’ll see the question: What’s the point of a college education?, and the answer: A college education is not job training.

Last, I link to jo(e)’s photostream at Flickr for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
BTW, do any of you use images in some way in your writing assignments? If you’re searching for a topic for the next teaching carnival, I’d be interested in hearing what you have to offer on the visual.

In closing
Don’t forget, you can check out past carnivals at the Teaching Carnival blog, and also keep a look out for Carnival #15 at New Kid on the Hallway. Also, see how to tag posts for the teaching carnival to get involved.

Note: I made good use of del.icio.us this month. However, there are only a few posts tagged at Technorati with teaching carnival, which seems odd. My apologies if I left anyone out.

~~Marcia