Not only did I enjoy this class, but I learned alot from it as well. I would definately reccommend R.R. as a professor to anyone interested in the course, and I would probably not take 310 from anyone but him! The reason is because what he teaches has a purpose! IT’s like this wordpress thing. I know it took me a while to catch on, but I do believe that it was important to learn. Podcasts, what a wonderful way to capture the attention of students. I think hypertext is a great way to incorporate technology into the literature classroom. My eyes have been opened to the world of technology even more in this class than in my computers in education class. I think that the choice of books that we focused on was perfect, and I really liked the literature circles. Everything we did in class, even the poems we read, and how we read them could be implemented into a middle or high school classroom; I love it! And if I do ever teach in a secondary classroom, I would use alot of what I learned in 311. The class, for the most part, was a good mesh too. I love when the chemistry is this perfect, where I look forward to every class.
Jana,
I think your blog this semester has been very interesting with the article and blog about cyber bullying one of the best I read. I think it it was really interesting to see someone approach this blog from a middle school perspective. the more I read your blogs the more i think that teaching complex literature and writing at this level might work. I think that you can get students to “buy what your selling” at this age. if we can reach students with challenging, interesting, and comprehensive projects at this age i think they will be able to more easily to comprehend and apply some of the curriculum at the highschool level. There should be no reason that we can’t try to teach kids at this age what is taught at that level.
Thank you again for being my fellow student. When you added comment to the class they were on topic and interesting. Good luck.
Wade