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Why So Toxic? Teaching Feminist Ethnographic Methods in the Composition Classroom

By Shane Snyder April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Collaboration, Ethnography, Research, Teaching, Tools & Methods

By Shane Snyder Introduction: A Glaring Omission Two months into my Fall 2020 composition course, “Possibility Spaces and Rhetoric in Video Games,” I realized something was wrong. Within sixteen weeks, I had scheduled only one lesson on the LGBTQ+ video game narratives Gone Home and Dys4ia, two discussions about predatory corporate capitalism and environmental destruction in The McDonald’s Videogame, and one week on violence and nationalism in Undertale. Most… Continue reading

Course Blogs: Commenting Privately on a Student’s Post

By Diane Jakacki January 23, 2012 January 23, 2012 Assignments, Lessons, and Exercises, Digital Pedagogy

Rebecca Burnett and I had a conversation about the nature of commenting on student blog posts. As instructors, should we have the option of making a private comment – viewable only to the student author, or should all comments be viewable to all students? There is an argument to be… Continue reading