tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60288292012-01-20T11:19:27.706-05:00Teaching with TechnologyLinks, references, advice and tips on teaching with technology that are drawn together for campus workshops and faculty discussions.Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-18879396392690275982012-01-20T11:18:00.002-05:002012-01-20T11:19:27.723-05:00Writing Center Ethics as a Habit of MindWhat does it mean to tutor ethically?
What are best writing center practices?
What degree of confidentiality should a tutor afford a writer?
How much tutoring is too much tutoring?
We'll discuss these and other questions about tutoring in light of a simple premise. We often face in our work times when we are extra busy, extra stressed, extra challenged. And often it is at times of high Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-63592978580315166882011-05-22T09:44:00.002-04:002011-05-22T21:33:32.162-04:00C and W 2011: Seeing the Field From the FieldAbstract: An academic field is usually defined by its literature -- the things we publish, the things we post, the things we present. But the field is larger than that, those things -- our conference presentations, our research, our classroom practices based on the latest technologies -- are the top, usually, of Kandinksy's triangle. But what about the middle and base of the triangle -- the Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-76351058279294225752010-11-12T09:01:00.000-05:002010-11-12T09:01:47.536-05:00Greenville Tech: Plagiarism and Assignment DesignAddressing Plagiarism: Premise 1 -- Design Assignments That Allow Work to be Seen and Collected in Increments
The argument put forth in this workshop is that visibility makes plagiarism hard to do. And more importantly, the things you can do to make writing visible and collectable in drafts and increments--including keeping a research portfolio--are crucial and necessary writing skills. Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-90627574854621795212010-08-19T18:30:00.000-04:002010-08-19T19:52:59.350-04:00USF ResourcesFrom Style Workshops -- Book's mentioned
The Craft of Revision by Donald Murray
Revising Prose by Richard Lanham
Style: An Anti-Textbook by Richard Lanham
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams
A Rhetoric of Pleasure by T.R. Johnson
The Well Crafted Sentence by Nora Bacon
Style in Rhetoric and Composition ed. by Paul Butler
Books that Came Up in Circle Talk
Rhetoric and Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-87096322358522153642010-03-01T13:26:00.004-05:002010-03-01T13:57:40.739-05:00E-Portfolio Resources and Ideas for DCCD College Success
From Bedford/St. Martin's . . .
Teaching Central. This is from our catalog page. From here you can request for free an exam copy of any professional resource book or use any professional resource web site we provide. For example, we offer the following titles which touch on directly, or have sections on, using portfolios and/or e-portfolios:
Assessing Writing: A Critical Sourcebook
Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-6533875179369411442009-03-05T11:46:00.005-05:002009-03-05T11:58:47.546-05:00NVCC-Annandale Plagiarism WorkshopPlagiarism and Computers -- Fun Ways to Take Control of the Issue A Bedford/St. Martin's Workshop for the Northern Virginia Community College -- AnnandaleA plagiarism tip from Barclay Barrios, writing in the BITs Blog:http://bedfordbits.com/index.php?/site/articles/the_wages_of_plagiarism/You can take this tip and do a lot with case studies of people whom, if not brought low by plagiarism, Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-91225263899953593392009-01-12T08:54:00.004-05:002009-01-12T09:06:46.467-05:00FIU Workshop: Teaching Peer ReviewPeer ReviewPeer review--students commenting on students writing--is one of the most beneficial things you can do in any course where there's writing. But it's a skill that has to be taught. A program such as CompClass's Writing Tab helps make Peer Review easier to teach because it makes peer review visible; it makes it possible for you as a teacher to see what students are doing.Here are some Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-20813492517907356272008-09-23T12:00:00.006-04:002008-09-23T13:42:34.461-04:00Pasadena City College WorkshopFor more information or follow up questions after the workshop, email me at ncarbone at bedfordstmartins.com In the meatime, here are a list of links to sites we'll visit today, as well as others you and your students can use as well as links for instructors and students to other resources that might help teaching and learning.For students:http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/pcc/This site was built Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-36392782389329641082008-04-11T14:21:00.002-04:002008-04-11T14:23:21.570-04:00Wright State BlogathonHere we are, 11 bloggers blogging, getting first posts up and out.Since we're talking about social networking, here's a take on what it is . . . in "plain English."Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-59902261556705518592008-04-10T11:39:00.000-04:002008-09-23T13:39:34.361-04:00 Are You E-Handbook Compatible and Ready for a Longterm Commitment? It's one thing to flirt with the idea of an e-handbook, it's another to start a teaching relationship with one where you invest time and energy in getting to know and use your e-handbook. Sure, the e-book is sexy – everyone's talking about them and how hot and new they are. But is the e-book going to be there for Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-84961828737595602502008-04-10T09:49:00.001-04:002008-04-10T09:52:27.174-04:00Cuyahoga Community College WorkshopNick Carbone, B/SM and University of Maryland University CollegeIn this session, we look at plagiarism from the inside out: if it's an issue exacerbated by computer technology and the ease of copying and pasting, of surfing and downloading, how can we apply a little pedagogical judo and turn things our way? What are some strategies and moves we can make to flip the issue from something to be Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-86950551776818573822008-03-03T18:34:00.002-05:002008-03-03T18:57:15.093-05:00MoorparkA Teaching with Technology Workshop for Moorpark CollegeCheating is Easyhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=free+term+papers, but let us look and see how it can be made both harder to do, and not worth doing, all in the context of helping students use the Internet and WWW better for the writing and learning they need to do.Turn Papermills to Your AdvantageSince these sites exist, Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-34833288839967654502007-12-13T11:25:00.000-05:002007-12-13T11:33:10.355-05:00VCU WorkshopCheating is Easyhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=free+term+papers, but let us look and see how it can be made both harder to do, and not worth doing, all in the context of helping students use the Internet and WWW better for the writing and learning they need to do.Turn Papermills to Your AdvantageSince these sites exist, let students know that you know about them. Use them in Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-57691257375252398192007-12-06T07:29:00.001-05:002007-12-06T07:56:18.209-05:00UMEDPlagiarism and Computers -- Fun Ways to Teach the IssueA Bedford Workshop for the University of Memphis Department of EnglishA plagiarism tip from Barclay Barrios, writing in the BITs Blog:http://bedfordbits.com/index.php?/site/articles/the_wages_of_plagiarism/You can take this tip and do a lot with case studies of people whom, if not brought low by plagiarism, suffered a reputation hit: Doris Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-28992218409736037182007-09-10T13:15:00.000-04:002007-09-10T23:01:27.948-04:00NKU Writing WorkshopsWord Processing Tips and IdeasTaking control of your grammar checker by Nick CarboneBedford Workshop on Teaching with Technology by Nick Carbone, Doug Eyman and Cindy Wambeam. Includes links on using Microsoft Word, Peer review activities and ideas, and more.See also "How to use your word processor" by Mike Palmquist. With Mike's site, scroll down till you see "Using & Customizing Tools" for Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-58035661704974713622007-04-13T08:42:00.000-04:002007-04-13T09:07:51.005-04:00Oklahoma City Community College Spring Writing Symposium: Useful Linkshttp://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/social-networking The Web 2.0 Bubble: Why the social-media revolution will go out with a whimper by Michael Hirschorn http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.htmlWarwick, Kevin. “Cyborg 1.0.” Wired. 8.02 (2000). 2 April 2007.Digital Writing Across the Curriculum: http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/gx/Digital-WAC.htmElgg: Learning Network as Social Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1156385788310923522006-08-23T22:08:00.000-04:002006-08-24T12:15:55.856-04:00Plagiarism Workshop for the Greenville Technical College English DepartmentDealing with PlagiarismLet's begin with some good advice:. . . offering the students an off-line alternative makes their consent absolutely clear. For instance, as an alternative, the student could be required to turn in a photocopy of the first page of all reference sources used, an annotated bibliography, and a one page paper reflecting on their research methodology. Such an option would be Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1155735058907635382006-08-16T09:16:00.000-04:002006-08-16T17:42:29.836-04:00Bradley University: Teaching Visual RhetoricWelcome to the workshop resource page. I'll place links and other items here.If you have questions after the workshop, feel free t drop me an email at ncarbone at bedfordstmartins dot com. Sorry that's not an active link, but I'm trying to cut down my spam intake.I should begin by confessing. I'm not really all that good with image technology. I can figure out Photoshop when I have to, but I Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1144494164600072172006-04-08T06:19:00.000-04:002006-04-08T08:02:10.086-04:00If Not Books, Then What?span style="font-weight: bold;">Preamble.Feel Free to Skip it While I talk it,and Jump to the Links and to Play in Them.A long time ago, in a teaching job far, far, away, I worked with a colleague who was deaf, having lost her hearing late in life. She didn't sign, but could read lips reasonably well. In many meetings, we'd do ok if the conversation wasn't quick, by which I don't mean short, but Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1144434948281077882006-04-07T14:29:00.000-04:002006-04-08T06:19:10.206-04:00UMass WTT Conference NotesAssigning and Judging Writing in the Digital AgeMike Garcia: Accumulating, Connecting and Using: Sorting Out Judgment in the Digital Age.Robbin Zeff: Time for a Makeover: Rethinking the Design and Delivery of WritingMike: U. context but ideas carry over to other contexts.Remembers being ta in 2002 and taught tech. writing for first time and had to emphasize technology, including the WWW. TeachersNick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1143056469139382422006-03-22T14:39:00.000-05:002006-03-22T15:04:03.573-05:00NIU: Trends in CompositionSocial spaces -- if these are habits and ways students network and share information, do they belong in the classroom?MySpaceNo, really, MySpaceFlickrH2OThe TLT Group's Exploration Guide for Educational Uses of Blogs and Wikis offers a really good resource for help guides, articles, and other resources.Here's another use of Wiki's.This is in fact a Wiki used on composition (quoted from: Penn Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1138120368992154332006-01-24T11:29:00.000-05:002006-01-25T11:03:39.006-05:00U.Miami: Trends in Composition WorkshopUpdated on 1/25:Quote from a Chronicle of Higher Ed. email: APPLE COMPUTER will allow colleges to set up customized portions of the iTunes Music Store to distribute course content and other audio and video material. The free service, announced on Monday, will let institutions limit use of some materials to certain people and make other content available to all. --> SEE http://Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1136558077108244572006-01-06T09:31:00.000-05:002006-02-02T19:35:07.586-05:00Plagiarism Workshop for DCCCCheating is Easyhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=free+term+papers, but let us look and see how it can be made both harder to do, and not worth doing, all in the context of helping students use the Internet and WWW better for the writing and learning they need to do.Turn Papermills to Your AdvantageSince these sites exist, let students know that you know about them. Use them in Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1095772875706026092004-09-21T08:57:00.000-04:002004-09-21T09:23:57.440-04:00What is Propaganda?
In an email discussion on TechRhet about propaganda, the issue of defining the term came up. One participant, CJ, offered her definition:
I simply operate from this (very broad) definition: "The promotion of specific ideas or views, often political in nature."I asked:
That means any act of persuasion, any advocacy, is propaganda?
If the working definition is *that* broad, then doesn't that Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1094479330886053002004-09-06T09:45:00.000-04:002004-09-06T10:03:34.760-04:00OpenOffice: For Compatibility's SakeMichelle Jackson, writing in today's (9/6/04) Boston Globe, opens her recommendation of OpenOffice, a free, open source suite of office tools, including a robust word processor, with this story:
Hoping to get some work done on a recent train trip to New York, I kicked back, opened my laptop, and clicked on Microsoft Excel. Up popped a prompt asking for the original program disk. Same thing with Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1087144092425136522004-06-13T12:28:00.000-04:002004-06-13T12:28:12.426-04:00Electronic Scholarly PublishingSony's new "eink" reader
It's light, portable, the battery lasts, and most importantly, the resolution is the same as print.
Eventually, devices like this will set a new standard for reading that will combine the advantages of digital reading -- hypertext, multimedia, lightness, among others -- with some of (not all) the pleasures of reading print that are so far lacking in reading on or from aNick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1078984109847673592004-03-11T00:48:00.000-05:002004-03-11T08:27:02.170-05:00CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments
http://www.ncte.org/groups/cccc/featuredinfo/115775.htm Very useful statement of principles and responsibilities that can help departments and colleges plan and improve online teaching. Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1077560047870658422004-02-23T13:14:00.000-05:002004-02-23T13:21:06.403-05:00Practical Tips on Teaching w/ Technology
http://bedfordresearcher.com/manuals.cfm: Manuals from the Bedford Researcher WWW site. Print these or send URL's to students to give them extra advice on doing library searches, using their word processor, and more.
http://bedfordresearcher.com/tutorials.cfm: Tutorials, including important help on working with sources.
http://bedfordresearcher.com/Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1075841860941034802004-02-03T15:57:00.000-05:002004-02-03T16:08:11.326-05:00Students vs. Turnitin.comStudent Battles Mandatory Use of Turnitin.com
URL:http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/21/ctv.plagiarism
This article from CNN covers the story of a McGill University (up in Canada) student who refused to submit his paper to Turnitin.com. His professor decided to give him an F for not submitting his papers; however, the student appealed the grades and their rationale, and the university ordered the Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1069186909706443282003-11-18T15:21:00.000-05:002003-11-18T15:33:20.986-05:00Buying Help on College Application Essays
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61668-2003Nov4.html
Jay Mathews examines a WWW service that -- for $79.95 -- edits college application essays, making, in Matthews' view, "the college application process even less rational and fair than it already is. It seems like one more slip down a greasy slope into resume padding, expense account fraudNick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1067920379530083952003-11-03T23:32:00.000-05:002003-11-03T23:33:02.346-05:00Cheating is Easy
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=free+term+papers, but lets look and see how it can be made both harder to do, and not worth doing, all in the context of helping students use the Internet and WWW better for the writing and learning they need to do.Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1067920212759259912003-11-03T23:30:00.000-05:002003-11-03T23:30:15.600-05:00Teaching Research, Teaching Writing, Teaching Academic Honesty
Naturally, these are all intertwined, especially now, with the Internet and WWW providing a place where teaching, writing, and research all actually converge. But how to talk about it and work it all into the classroom? My own inclination is to work make the issue discussable. Here's how I do that: http://bedfordstmartins.com/Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1067917897474763922003-11-03T22:51:00.000-05:002003-11-03T23:05:21.006-05:00Reliable Sources
These are examples of reliable WWW sites -- good starting places for students and instructors to use. The main difference between starting here and finding something on Google? -- human editors made careful choices.
Research and Documentation Online at http://dianahacker.com/resdocoffers a comprehensive collection of research resources, including an overview of research Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1067916041795950452003-11-03T22:20:00.000-05:002003-11-03T23:02:16.260-05:00Beware of Erroneous Advice
http://turnitin.com/research_site/e_faqs.html is a WWW site on plagiarism from Turnitin.com, a company which offers an expensive plagiarism detection service. I'm drawing attention to it because they get a fundamental fact wrong (see bold font):
What is plagiarism?
Simply put, plagiarism is the use of another's original words or ideas as though they were your own. Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1067915062349948092003-11-03T22:04:00.000-05:002003-11-04T07:29:16.293-05:00How Student Papers Sometimes Get Written
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail64.html
The site's a hoot, and it's funny. And it's also a useful teaching tool, worth showing in class if you can do it, or sending students to look at and write about it for a class discussion on doing one's own work.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2059540/leads to "Adventures in Cheating," by Seth Stevenson, a piece that Nick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028829.post-1067884683625422032003-11-03T13:38:00.000-05:002003-11-03T14:06:24.780-05:00Teaching Source Evaluation and Research Skills
Before the Internet and World Wide Web information explosion, most teachers did not spend time teaching students to evaluate sources. Research projects sent students to the library, where it was assumed that sources would be valid. So an essential skill was never taught. But now it needs to be taught.
Fortunately, there are several good WWW sites toNick Carbonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13965878135277592695noreply@blogger.com0