Writing Across the Curriculum

I'm delighted to report that our efforts to grow Writing Commons like an academic journal have worked out really well.  We've reviewed over 75 new webtexts, and we are in the process of publishing some excellent free resources for college students.  Perhaps the most exciting result is that traffic is really blowing up!  Since February of this year, 105,532 unique visitors have accessed Writing Commons.

An online journal about flipping the classroom, mostly grade school.

This site might be helpful to those of us who are using and/or modifying others' works in our own publications.

These new Google add-ons take Gdocs to a whole new level!

Example lesson for presentations using the pecha-kucha format.

Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs-short for "massive open online courses." The courses raise questions about the future of teaching, the value of a degree, and the effect technology will have on how colleges operate. Struggling to make sense of it all? On this page you'll find highlights from The Chronicle's coverage of MOOCs.

Economics has a beautiful body of theory. But does it describe real markets? Doubts have come up not only in the wake of the financial crisis, since financial crashes should not occur according to the then established theories. Since ages, economic theory is based on concepts such as efficient markets and the "homo economicus", i.e. the assumption of competitively optimizing individuals and firms. It was believed that any behavior deviating from this would create disadvantages and, hence, be eliminated by natural selection. But experimental evidence from behavioral economics show that, on average, people behave more fairness-oriented and other-regarding than expected. A new theory by scientists from ETH Zurich now explains why. 

This author presents a practical view of implementing the Flipped Classroom model.  

We all know this, right? Competence in cursive is another fundamental skill that we may be overlooking for struggling college students. How can one take notes without cursive and a notebook? No, I don't think that an iPad or laptop work as well, even if the student's keyboarding can keep up.

Reasons to "Flip".

This chart could apply to MOOCs or to any innovation that we bring to our teachers and that they bring to their classrooms.

A list of great websites with free music for instructional videos, etc.

This is a great resource for creating rubrics or using pre-made ones.  

Five ways to use The New York Times to "flip" your classroom.