Tracking Teaching Strategies

One of my goals this semester is to work with you on finding interesting teaching strategies that you might be able to implement in your classrooms in creative ways. We'll be doing this in part by working together in some form on compiling blog posts for a teaching carnival that I will host on my personal blog on March 23.

But I will also try to highlight other creative teaching strategies and interesting pedagogical discussions and would encourage you to do the same. One activity that I'd love to try this semester, perhaps in a freshman composition class is a variation on George Williams' Sticky Notes and Flickr activity, which he used to address the question of whether or not Gulliver's Travels is a novel, and which he described on his blog.

Welcome to English 518

This is the official course blog for Dr. Chuck Tryon's English 518 course, Technology in the Language Arts Curriculum, taught at Fayetteville State University. In this course, we will consider how various digital communications technologies, such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, and social networking and bookmarking sites, can be used for K-12 teachers in the language arts classroom.

You can learn more about the course from my personal blog, The Chutry Experiment, where I recently wrote about my plans for the course. Or you can follow me on Twitter, where I have also received advice about the course. Finally, you can see some of the texts I've considered discussing by looking at my delicious links, especially those focused on English 518, a tag I'll also be encouraging my students to use as well.

One of the major projects in English 518 will be to produce, in collaboration with my English 110 students, a wiki focused on local history and culture tentatively called The Fayetteville Project after Walter Benjamin's famous, sprawling analysis of 19th-century consumer culture, The Arcades Project.