http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/ 5531 rhetorical ways to skin a class en-us 2004-09-30T13:47:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/006545.html This posting is partly for Brenda's benefit, because she couldn't linger after class today, but mostly for my own benefit. For Brenda: we talked about keeping the attending-a-teaching-and-learning-lecture post as a component of the mandatory "electronic dialogue". However, since the... Musings nyssa003 2004-09-30T13:47:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/006528.html Trying out a quick, informal blog posting (!) here. I'm also feeling my way around rhetoric in general and grad school in particular. This is new again to me-hitting the books and theorizing. After the first week, I was considering... Musings bhudson 2004-09-30T07:18:11-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/006527.html Being a pedagogy course, I once took a Buddhism course and had a chance to teach a little on Buddha's teaching for another class so I typed up 2 problems of teaching Buddhism. Hope you find them fun to ponder...... Musings tayl0464 2004-09-30T00:03:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/006484.html I feel your pain... but I have two suggestions. The first comes from a very good source, and a person for whom I have tremendous respect, and also a person who went through this program and was its first PhD... Musings arrig002 2004-09-29T12:45:47-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/006389.html I'll take this to be a very general question about graduate school in general, a little like Zoe did. Hmmm.....good question. The answer varies daily. Most of the time it seems like I have a good handle on things, and... Musings full0146 2004-09-27T23:26:52-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/006333.html Over the past 3 weeks I have run the gamut on 3 words—rhetoric, scientific, and technical—in my 2 rhetoric courses. I have heard lots, but outside of Bernadette’s “Spurious Coin” I have felt more pain than promise. I have learned... Musings tayl0464 2004-09-27T14:50:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/005721.html Judging from research literature and discussion groups, student passivity is alive and well in classrooms across the country. In light of this, how do we, as teachers, motivate students to claim responsibility for their own learning? How do we foster... Essays bhudson 2004-09-19T21:03:14-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/005115.html Welcome to Pedagogically Speaking, a blog site for the Rhetoric 5531 class. This is the section where people can post musings on anything they want... within the bounds of school decorum of course.... Musings arrig002 2004-09-09T14:09:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arrig002/5531/005110.html Welcome to Pedagogically Speaking, a blog site for the Rhetoric 5531 class. This is the Essays Section where you can find refined inquiries of classroom discussions and readings.... Essays arrig002 2004-09-09T14:04:01-06:00