Author: Paula M Miller

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended! There’s still time to submit your proposal for the Social Justice and Gaming blog carnival. If you are interested in contributing to this blog carnival, please send a 150-200 word description of your idea to Heather Lang (hl12d@my.fsu.edu) and Paula Miller (miller.7293@osu.edu) by Sunday, April 5. You may also send questions or request more information. The blog posts will be published throughout April and May. “Gaming is social, participatory and has learning at its core. These are powerful things for social impact, and it makes sense for us to take full advantage of it.”…

Today’s DRCchat on Air features teachers from North Branch Area Schools: Literacy Coach Amber White, Math Teacher Cindy Lewis, Art Teacher Becky Baksa, and High School English Department Chair Leann Kerr, joined by Troy Hicks, associate professor at Central Michigan University. In this energizing conversation, they share their plans for Digital Learning Day on Friday, March 13th, including a grant funded district-wide conference organized in collaboration with Troy Hicks at Central Michigian University, the Teacher Technology Institute. You can tweet to them about the conference at #NBTTI15.  Click here if you’d like to view the conference schedule. A few more…

Our “Reflections from the Trenches in the Cloud” series has covered issues related to classroom teaching; I’m going to approach online instruction from a different angle: the online writing center. One of the oldest and perhaps best known online writing centers is the Purdue OWL, an online space that acts as both a digital threshold to a brick-and-mortar center and a resource bank for writers. If you teach, you’ve probably used the Purdue OWL, and while it’s fabulous, I’m going to focus on some resources for providing tutorial services via the internet for students who otherwise can’t or choose not…

This morning, Jenae Cohn and had a great conversation with a group of instructors who use ePortfolios in different settings.  We were joined by Kate Birdsall, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures at Michigan State University, Daniel Von Holten, Instructor specializing in professional and workplace writing at Kansas State University, and Karen Forgette, WRIT100 Core Instructor at ePortfolio Committee member at The University of Mississippi. Highlights of the interview include advice on how to gain student buy-in and how to use ePortfolios to encourage reflection throughout the course. Click below to watch the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bsXj2LhMF4…