Could ‘thinking out loud’ be an inherent pedagogical strategy for scholarly writing?

This post is by Dr Dely Elliot, Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and member of the Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education blog team. To use the dictation function in word, go to the ‘Edit’ menu, and choose ‘Start Word Dictation’ I always find blog writing a relaxing activity. It may come as a …

Writing in the Presence of Others

By Jennifer Fletcher As a graduate student, I remember one of my advisors telling me that we’re all just adding our bricks to the wall. At the time, I couldn’t help hearing echoes of Pink Floyd, and I perhaps didn’t fully appreciate my advisor’s point about the collaborative nature of intellectual labor. After a couple …

Using Technology to Build a Better Relationship with Students

Dave Monahan is an award-winning filmmaker, professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington, and coauthor of Looking at Movies, an introduction to film text. As part of his work on the book, he has created dozens of videos illustrating cinematic concepts and techniques. In this blog post, Monahan reflects on how multimedia learning and adaptive quizzing created a positive change in his introduction to film classes.    Dave MonahanImage Credit: …

On the origin of minds

Cognition did not appear out of nowhere in ‘higher’ animals but goes back millions, perhaps billions, of years - by Pamela Lyon Read at AeonOn the origin of minds

understanding academic writing – starting the PhD

Writing is a crucial aspect of doctoral work – indeed all the scholarly work you will undertake from now on. Writing is integral to scholarship. Whether you are in or out of higher education, if you are researching, you are writing. Writing and its associated activities reading and talking, are the major ways in which …

The Rashomon effect

The ‘Rashomon effect’ is real. Learn how hidden factors including biases can influence your view of reality and truth - by Aeon Video Watch at AeonThe Rashomon effect

Inter-African Diversity between Africans and African-Americans — Free Black Space

I can hear my daughter's voice in my head talking about appropriating culture. She's what I think they call a millenial.  I am not sure exactly what that means; but every time I replay the memory I hear in her voice a statement about cultural sensitivity.My years in the black bookstores taught me a lot…Inter-African Diversity …

Notes on Autoethnography

Autoethnography: Part 01 I need to edit a paper to incorporate some of the reviewer comments, equally my designing educational inquiries course just began again this week, and one of my MEd students is running an autoethnographic project. So there are my three reasons for indulging in reading and writing again. This is a mere …

Toward Antiracist First-Year Composition Goals

We are finally ready to offer the FYC goals statement that my colleagues and I worked on. If you are unfamiliar with the history of how this document came to be, you can read about it in my past blog posts on the subject: "Why I Left The CWPA (Council of Writing Program Administrators)," Apr 18,…Toward …

Empire of Language #5 Tactical Uses of the I

The personal often seems to be the easiest way to get to an Authentic Black. I think this is a symptom of the remnant of slavery that invalidates African American gathering and union.When African Americans make use of the I in their work, it is often times to suggest a definitive difference between themselves and…Empire …