Orientation Elective
I am excited to be part of a project to revamp our new student orientation elective, with more focus on academic expectations, student responsibilities, and language learning and study strategies that...
View ArticleBlackboard and Google Classroom
Blackboard and Google Classroom are 2 popular learning management systems, and both I have used for different purposes in my classes. Blackboard All students with UTK netIDs and passwords can access a...
View ArticleMobile Scavenger Hunts
I have used Blackboard’s mobile assessment to create fun photo scavenger hunts for students. As long as they know their UTK net ID and password, they can access the scavenger hunt easily. Here’s a list...
View ArticleOrientation Program: Spring I 2016
This term was the first term for me to implement my plan of having a term-long orientation course focusing both on campus resources as well as academic and cultural adjustment help. I taught the...
View ArticleOrientation Program: Spring II 2016
This term I taught the advanced level orientation course. This time we made changes to the schedule–switching around sessions, combining some information into other sessions, and adding a Culture Shock...
View Article2016 Greek Mythology Theme Term Results
This fall I had the opportunity to build a Greek Mythology themed reading class for our 107 level, which is a more advanced level of reading. After consulting our curriculum, I created an 8-week lesson...
View ArticleThe Ever Evolving Orientation Program
I recently presented at the 2016 SETESOL about the many changes made to the Orientation Program. Click here for a PDF of that presentation. It was pretty successful–most of the attendees to the session...
View Article2017-2018 “It’s All Greek to Me!” update
A lot of things happened in 2017 regarding my Greek Mythology lessons. In the summer of this year, I decided to make a sort of textbook / course packet, putting together all of the readings I used and...
View ArticleMore planned changes to the New Student Orientation
Another year, another time to reflect on what you are doing and what needs to be changed. Nothing big has changed as far as the content of the course, but some changes in the delivery and student...
View Article2018-2019 “It’s All Greek to Me!” Update
In the last update, I had mentioned that I was using LaTeX and starting to make the textbook as open as possible, but with hopes “dashed” of making it completely open. In September 2018, the library I...
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