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Nakamaru, Sarah – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2011
In this essay, the author describes her own attempt at incorporating Web 2.0 technology into her teaching: a wiki project that she used in her English as a second language (ESL) composition course. The theme she traces throughout the rest of this essay is the wiki's ability (or inability) to make "connections" of various kinds. Like any text, the…
Descriptors: Audiences, Service Learning, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Webb, Adam – Online Submission, 2009
Current approaches and trends in writing pedagogy within the composition classroom focus on the development of students' identities through personal, cultural, or disciplinary processes. By employing writing assignments and activities that concentrate on developing certain traits or characteristics of students' identities has led to a "crisis"…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Introductory Courses, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Gonder, Jennifer, Ed.; Howell-Carter, Marya, Ed.; Anderson, Jessica, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Included herein is the conference proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2013 was: The Science of Learning. The Conference featured a keynote address by Victor Benassi, Ph.D.…
Descriptors: Psychology, College Instruction, Conferences (Gatherings), Undergraduate Students
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Hall, Maureen P. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
This article outlines the design of a new service-learning component central to a graduate course on teaching elementary and middle school writing. The service-learning involves course participants acting as mentors to middle school students as they write personal histories of local African American, Cape Verdean, and Puerto Rican senior citizens.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Intention, Graduate Students, Mentors