[September’s Teaching Carnival--and the beginning of year five of the TC--is from Tonya Howe, Assistant Professor of English at Marymount University.  Tonya blogs at Cerosia and can be reached at thowe [at] Marymount [dot] edu or @howet on Twitter.  ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms. You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home page. –@billiehara]

As a new academic year unfolds, we’re taking stock of our syllabi and classroom philosophies, and giving students some helpful advice for success. Library Babel Fish weighs in on the bloated syllabus as academic Terms of Service contracts, and ProfHacker surveys some creative approaches to the paper beasts. Mary Beth Hertz at Edutopia warns us not to try for…

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[August's Teaching Carnival is from Sara Q. Thompson, the Director of Educational Technology at Briar Cliff University.  She blogs at Librarienne and can be reached at sara.q.thompson [at] gmail [dot] com or @librarienne on Twitter. ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms. You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home page. –@billiehara]

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The theme for this month – a month that holds the last few days of summer and the beginning of another academic year – is “bridging the gap”.  The gap might be in communication, in skills, in the difference between what we want to do and what we’re doing.

Bridging gaps in how we communicate with others:

• Leanne Doherty writes at University of Venus on the …

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Here at ProfHacker, we devote about one-third of our posts (and our time) to teaching-related issues and activities. Our posts have covered, among other things, pedagogy, students, colleagues, tips, tricks, books, and lectures. We understand the importance of teaching in higher education. Nevertheless, we are not the only ones who understand it. At ProfHacker, we believe in collaboration in and the sharing of knowledge. Therefore, each month, we publish a roundup of links around the web, links devoted to teaching in higher education. These are the Teaching Carnivals. [You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival's home page. ]

This month the posts are wide ranging. Let’s get started.

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[May's Teaching Carnival is from Jill Morris, and she provides her own introduction below.  ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms. You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home page. --@billiehara]

When I volunteered to write this Teaching Carnival (what feels like) many months ago, I was a wife, a WPA, a computers and writing junky, a graduate student without a complete dissertation, a job market hound, a closet ballerina, and a Writing Center Director. As I piece together my notes, now, I am single, on my way to a tenure track job with no administration duties, a Writing Center Director preparing to hand over the keys to a new shiny coordinator, a graduate student with a dissertation in hand, and I am about to present …

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April’s Teaching Carnival is from Annie Vocature Bullock, an Adjunct Instructor of Church History at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and an Instructor at the Center for Christian Ministry and Vocation at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. Annie blogs at Marginal Theology and can be contacted via email at avbullock (at) gmail.com.

ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms. You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home page.

The Continuing Crisis in Education:

• Arbitrista responds to a recent New York Times article on teacher evaluation and takes on the bugaboo of the bad teacher.
• Sisyphus wonders whether Jon Stewart realizes he isn’t really exaggerating when he lampoons anti-educational rhetoric.
• Dan…

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March’s Teaching Carnival is from Nate Kreuter, an Assistant Professor of English at Western Carolina University.  Nate blogs at 3 x 3 in Cullowhee. You can email him at nathankreuter [AT] gmail [DOT]com.

ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms.  You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home page.

Admonitions to students, incisive questions, a tomato basil soup recipe, and even a Dear John letter.  This month’s Teaching Carnival covers a little bit of everything.  With the Wisconsin protests on the minds of many teachers, not to mention the even more serious protests ongoing in the Middle East, February was a month that seemed to invite manifestos, and a number of educational gauntlets, so to speak, are thrown…

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February’s Teaching Carnival is from Elizabeth Kleinfeld, an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Metropolitan State College of Denver.  Liz blogs at Revisionspiral You can email her at liz.kleinfeld [AT] gmail [DOT]com.

ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms.  You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home page.

With Spring semester still shiny and new, many are pondering the first day or week of class. Others are still smarting or figuring out how to teach smarter based on student evaluations. Then there’s there are the perennial teacher-topics: teaching and grading. Of course, you can’t have a carnival without a bunch of links on teaching with technology, and I figured it was my…

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January’s Teaching Carnival is from Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and she blogs at Writing on the Margins.  You may email her at webbsusa [AT] gmail [DOT]com.

ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms. You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home site.  Teaching Carnival 4.5 continues with a new list of interesting links and reads about pedagogy in higher education.

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December’s Teaching Carnival is from David Morgen, Assistant Director of the Writing Center at Emory University. You can email him at dmorgen [at] gmail [dot] com.

ProfHacker has become the permanent home of the Teaching Carnival, so each month you can return for a snapshot of the most recent thoughts on teaching in college and university classrooms. You can find previous carnivals on Teaching Carnival’s home site.

Teaching Carnival 4.4 continues with a new list of interesting links and reads about pedagogy in higher education.

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