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Improving Multimodal Assignments through Collaborative Reflection/Revision
Get PDFMultimodal assignments, while dismissed by some as "creative," are becoming more widely accepted in college composition classrooms. In fall 2016, Wichita State University assigned a multimodal assignment in English 101 for the first time. This essay traces the revision and remaking of this multimodal assignment, reviewing the purposes of multimodal assignments and the benefits of a reflective and collaborative pedagogical practice
Review of Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom
Get PDFBrett Pierce\u27s recent book Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom (Heinemann, 2022) provides accessible, research-based instructional strategies and assessment for integrating digital literacy practices in classrooms, while honoring students\u27 existing literacy expertise and creating more equitable classroom spaces
Heads Up! and Collaborative Sentence Writing
Get PDFThe author describes two instructional strategies that strengthen students’ understanding of key vocabulary
Insight into Instructional Coaching
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to gain insight into the startup cycle of an instructional coaching responsibilities in a school district. These case studies show both success and setbacks as an honest and transparent look into instructional coaching
"Bang" by Barry Lyga: A Story on the Complexity of Humanity
Get PDFA question people like to ask one another is: "If you could go back in time and do something different, would you?" There are no perfect humans. We are prone to make mistakes and the desire to change things for the better lies within us. Barry Lyga\u27s Bang (2017) explores this desire of erasing misfortunes through the eyes of 14-year-old Sebastian in Brookdale, Maryland
Patience and Persistence: Author Janae Marks Encourages Young Readers and Writers at the 2023 Literature Festival
Get PDFOn October 4, 2023, author Janae Marks served as the featured writer at the Literature Festival in Topeka, Kansas. Held annually on the campus of Washburn University, the Literature Festival brings together young readers, their teachers, and authors in an effort to celebrate and promote reading and young readers. In this interview conducted during the Literature Festival, Marks discussed a variety of topics on the subject of literature written for young readers, including the importance of storytelling in the lives of students as well as the challenges and rewards related to writing for an audience of young readers. Over the course of her time at the Literature Festival, Marks emphasized the importance of persistence and patience in the life of a writer, and she encouraged young readers to explore a wide range of genres in order to continue to grow throughout their reading lives
Revising Writing Assignments in Response to Generative AI
Get PDFThe author describes how she revised writing assessments in the university’s first-year writing sequence to emphasize rhetorical analysis of multimodal texts, prompts to which generative AI and ChatGPT struggle to respond
Editor\u27s Note
Get PDFThe Fairmount Folio was created by Dr. Helen S. Hundley in 1996to provide a forum for undergraduate and graduate students to publishexceptional historical work. Over the course of twenty years andseventeen volumes, she has served as the driving force and champion ofthe Folio. She has overseen every detail of its publication, including thetransition to a digital format. Her dedication is such that even after aserious accident in March of 2016, she continued guiding the publicationof this volume. Tis only a flesh wound, she might have said. To her,this volume is affectionately dedicated.Dr. Robert M. Owens and Felicia Hammon
It\u27s Not About the Whales: The Continued Need for Protectionist Environmental Law
Get PDFEnvironmental law is altering the understanding and practice of law. Environmental Law is a legal discipline derived from social movements during the 1960s and 1970s, and has progressively received social, political, cultural, and legal acceptance. But its legitimacy is derived from extra-legal evidence. Law experienced a similar shift during the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Progressive legal scholars promoted the Law and Society Movement, which focused on the concept of "legal realism." Legal realism argued that courts consider legal and non-legal evidence in their decision-making processes. They preferred to base legal arguments on empirical research rather than traditional legal rules and institutions. In his 1881 work The Common Law, legal historian Oliver Wendell Holmes noted that experience should govern the creation and application of law, not solely logic. He argued that one had to be aware of all kinds of non-legal matters to develop a thorough understanding of law. In 1921, Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo\u27s work The Nature of the Judicial Process continued Holmes\u27s argument. He added that judges should not solely rely upon legal past precedent, but consider all branches of knowledge, experience, information, and their own intuition. Modern legal realists view law not as a fixed phenomenon, but in a state of constant flux, responding to changing social conditions.1 Environmental law challenges court justices to not only include procedural law and sociological jurisprudence in their decisions, but also to consider each case as unique and different from all others
Summer Inquiry, Reflection, and Dialogue with KATE and NCTE
Get PDFI hope your summer has been both relaxing and rejuvenating. For me, this is a time to catch up on rest and reading, a time to take care of tasks that fall through the cracks during the academic year, and a time to reflect on my personal and professional goals