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February 10, 2012, 8:00 am

Teaching Multiple Sections of the Same Course

As educators, most of us place content at the center of our courses. After content has been organized, we then focus on ways to teach that content to students and how we will assess their learning. We think about learning styles, teaching styles, numbers of students, room space, and available technology. We think about whether we need to deliver content via lecture, discussion, overhead slides, or course management systems. We think about how (or if) we can make our courses interactive. Once all this has been defined and planned, we are set to go. That is, we are set to go until we learn we will teach multiple sections of that same course . . . during the same semester.

Teaching more than one section of the same course sounds easy, doesn’t it? It means one less preparation for a semester, as we can just teach that content two or three times instead of just once. Yea, easy….

December 6, 2011, 8:00 am

Reading with the Stars: Teaching with the HIGHBROW Annotation Browser

By Prof. Hacker

[This is a guest post by Augusta Rohrbach and David Tagnani. Augusta Rohrbach is an Associate Professor of English at Washington State University and Editor of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. She's working on The Gallows Diary of Mary Surratt, Presidential Assassin, a book that uses this case history to examine the conditions of subjectivity when accessed exclusively through secondary archival sources only. David Tagnani is a PhD student in the Department of English at Washington State University. He studies ecology, mysticism, and the coincidence of the two in British and American Literature.--@jbj]

There are lots of tools out there that aggregate existing information and even organize it for users to interpret. Since the early Hypercities, GIS tools, for instance, have been very much the rage among humanists who wish to add geographical and census data to enhance the �…