- Taking the 20,000 foot view on my class
- Ending the semester, Lessons Learned (Part 4: Assessment)
- The Backwards Syllabus
- Low hanging fruit
- VoiceThread as Final Exam
- Teaching outside of the textbook and inside of the museum
- Digital Storytelling and Language Learning
- Blogging their scholarship
- Professional development: Simple, small-scale, and cost-effective
- Why I teach.
- Teaching Transparently: Scuba diving in 2nd year college Spanish
- Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 3)
- Social Networking and Octegenarians
- Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 2)
- Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 1) … (of what will be many)
- Midterm assessment: My turn
- What’s under the hood: letting the outside in
- Informal Assessment, Disruption & Repair: Making change happen.
- Week 4: What? You don’t want me to write a paper?
- Welcome to the free fall
- Struggling with the Syllabus
- Imagining a college without grades
- Reflections from the Chair Swing, Moving into the Summer
- Syllabus Hacking with Bryan and the bava
- Well this is embarrassing
- There is no mystery in grading
- Using Can-Do statements for student self assessment
- El Proyecto Personal: Creating Conversations, Taking Risks, Learning to Prepare for the World Outside the Classroom
- Creating Radio in the Language Classroom
- Teaching Acceptance through Storytelling
- Improvisational teaching
- Fear, Motivation, Social Consciousness and Language Learning: the graph
- Using Radio Ambulante in the Spanish language classroom
- Creating, Uploading, Commenting and Sharing Audio via SoundCloud
- Notes I jotted to myself at the end of the term
- Student-centered, project-based learning…and a medical emergency
- Taking a tour of the HISP 205 class blog
- Let’s go bowling!
- Cooking with Drag Queens: Teaching Inclusion and Discovering the Limits of the Spanish Language
- Tune Up and a Smack down (part 2): The gringa returns to Bogotá
- A tune-up and a smack-down: The gringa returns to Bogotá
- Rethinking the role of the language textbook
- Our WordPress Class Blogging Tool: Now Yours Too
- A few shout outs and a woof
- Mid semester evaluation: Do it.
- What we did in class today, and no I can’t get you the notes.
- Searching for blogs in all the wrong places.
- Planning for HISP205-09… in Second Life
As part of the nmc summer 2010 conference, I had the good fortune to help coordinate and participate in a workshop entitled “Hacking Your Syllabus” with Bryan Alexander and Jim Groom.
Ah the syllabus… that sacred document that serves as a path, a beacon, a contract between student and teacher for the upcoming 16 weeks of the course…. or that thing your department chair asks you to hand in or put i a three ring binder so when the evaluators come (once every 5 yrs) they can see what you have done. Oh yeah, that…
Rather than me blathering away about what we did and what was said, I am posting here the Google Doc we created as part of the workshop and with the attendees. Of particular interest might be the links here to some of the different anti-syllabi that were shared and explored and discussed.
It’s impossible to retrace the entire workshop or the amazing, creative, dynamic flow of the conversations. (Jim Groom. Bryan Alexander. Let your mind roll on) This document grasps at some of that crazy, exciting goodness. And hopefully reminds us a little bit of all of the things we think the syllabus ought to do, but really doesn’t…or shouldn’t.
I plan to have this doc in one hand (along with a strong cup of coffee in the other ) while I begin to map out the next semester of HISP205. Between this document and the great ideas I am getting from being a part of the rollicking dls106 online learning adventure, I hoping for a great semester. I will keep you posted.
Can that really have happened so long ago?
Discussions were terrific. You participants – you know who you were – did a great job of driving us forward.
Well, looking back, I admit to wondering about how far syllabus hacking can go. It feels largely individualistic, rather than strategic. Which isn’t a bad thing, just a useful limit to bear in mind, if right.
I would love to be able to access your google doc. I am adjunct lecturer in art history in NY. Would you be willing to open it to others?
I just made it accessible to you. Please take a look and please let me know if you have any questions. Would love to talk about more about hacking!
–B