Tag: My Courses
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Building an open essay writing process
Assessment in the Humanities in university still depends heavily on “the essay”, either as a paper or in an examination. Any survey of syllabii in the humanities and liberal arts will bear this out – the bulk of our marks go for the abilty to write essays of varying length, from 1,500 words up 6,000-8,000…
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Reworking Courses 2011
The best time to plan next years courses is right after this year’s end and I am already sketching out some revisions to my options for the coming year. Some old assessments are going, some new stuff is in and one course is going in reverse.
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Can I make Twitter a requirement for my students?
Harold Jarche is one of the most popular bloggers dealing with social networking, and for good reason – he is insightful. His blog post from yesterday gathers ideas which prompt me to wonder why I haven’t already made twitter a requirement in my courses, and how I can overcome the obstacles to using it in…
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Charlie Wilson’s War
Charlie Wilsons War is a book which should get onto quite a few academic reading lists as an interesting case study in several areas – it sheds light on the workings of US government and politics, on how some clandestine agencies work, at least some of the time, and is one of the most interesting…
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TEFL and Terrorism by Yoda
I believe I have uncovered a cunning plot by a cadre of unemployed South-East Asian VCR manual writers to infiltrate Ireland and subvert our knowledge economy. These people have invested enormous amounts in plastic surgery to pass as Irish, and have flawless accents, mostly from Cork. They have created fake histories to make it appear…
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Wargame Design Class
I just finished marking the wargame design exercise which I set my War, State & Society class to do as a group exercise for their coursework which was doubly mean because it was (a) not a regular boring old essay so they had to think about it and (b) required them to work in groups…
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Writing Structured Documents
I promised some people yesterday a link to the current version of my handout on writing structured documents, using examples in Microsoft Word. It shows how to use styles rather than simply plastering bold, 24 point on some text – everyone who does not know how to do this already should read it. Â I…
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November in Cork
Everyone is cold and a bit SAD this week. Many of my 9am class on International Organisations didn’t make it this morning, but I’ve put the class video up on the Moodle LMS for them to download. I’m not sure if this is entirely fair on the people who actually made the effort, but since…
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Moodling on..
The web seems to hate me today, but the screencam movie showing my students how to sign on to my course sites on moodle is finally up on the web at http://www.ucc.ie/academic/history/files/signup.wmv It is 5.5 mb, which will be fine on the campus network but too big for dialup, and while I haven’t been able…
