Malcolm’s Teaching Journal

Teaching Journal: After Teaching English 160 (Fourth Attempt)

Posted by on November 20, 2008

Today I substitute taught English 160 once again. I think it will be the last attempt for the semester, though who knows? The students are getting ready to do some peer evaluations on their recommendation reports (a draft of which is due in class on December 2). In order to help them understand what they […]

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Teaching Journal: Documentum Training (2nd Attempt)

Posted by on November 19, 2008

I am scheduled to do some more Documentum Web Publisher training in a few minutes. This will be my second attempt at doing so this semester. Fortunately, the difficulties that we encountered last time appear to have been resolved. I came into the classroom earlier today to make sure that all of the machines would […]

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Teaching Journal: English 160 (After Third Attempt)

Posted by on October 28, 2008

Last Thursday, I taught a section of English 160 as part of the teaching requirement for Tech Com 404 (Teaching Technical Communiaction). This was quite different from the previoius teaching sessions I conducted for the course. In the previous teaching attempts, I had the students participate in some group activities that were provided by Dr. […]

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Teaching Journal: English 160 (Third Attempt)

Posted by on October 23, 2008

Today I am scheduled to teach English 160 for the third time this semester. Unlike the previous two times (see here and here), I will actually be presenting lecture material to the class on Recommendation Reports. Due to the technical difficulties I experienced last week (there were campus-wide issues with network file storage, preventing people […]

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Teaching Journal: After Teaching English 160 (2nd attempt)

Posted by on October 16, 2008

Today, I taught a section of English 160 on behalf of Dr. Northcut, the regular instructor. The topic of the day was progress reports, which all of the students have to create for their semester-long project. Dr. Northcut supplied some sample progress reports and a grading rubric. My original goal was to have the students […]

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Teaching Journal: Documentum Training (After)

Posted by on October 16, 2008

Yesterday I conducted Documentum Web Publisher training for a group of students. Four of the students were part of a project within the Information Systems & Technology department, tasked with creating an EcoCAR Challenge web site. This is an effort involving Missouri S&T and several other higher-education institutions to create the best, most ecologically friendly […]

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Teaching Journal: Documentum Training

Posted by on October 14, 2008

On Wednesday, October 15, 2008, I am scheduled to conduct Documentum Web Publisher (DWP) training for a very small group of students. Presumably, they are working for academic/administrative departments on campus and need to use Documentum to update web pages. I have conducted this type of training in the past and so I am pretty […]

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MITC 2008 — Challenges of Creating Online Content

Posted by on October 8, 2008

Challenges of Creating Online Content (PPT 2007) On October 6-7, 2008, I attended the Morenet Instructional Technology Conference 2008 (MITC). It was an interesting conference focusing on the ways technology is used to enhance learning outcomes in the classrooms. The primary focus seemed to be on K-12 instruction, but there were a number of higher […]

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Teaching Journal: Using Wimba

Posted by on September 22, 2008

Today I helped Angie Hammons teach Dr. Bih-Ru Lea’s class enter the Wimba Live Classroom virtual environment on Blackboard. Dr. Lea teaches a course about strategic enterprise management configurations. As part of the course, students are required to use a variety of different remote conferencing tools that allow them to collaborate in real time with […]

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Teaching Journal: Blackboard 101

Posted by on September 4, 2008

Dr. Northcut has asked me to teach Blackboard to the Tech Com 404 students (and herself) today. I think I have a decent outline of topics to cover, such as adding assignments and managing groups. Unfortunately, I don’t have finished documentation for some of what I will be covering. I will need to work quickly […]

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