John Attridge, University of New South Wales Overview In this assignment, students in a third-year undergraduate course collectively produced an online annotated text of Henry James’s The Portrait of a…
Sam Meekings, Northwestern University in Qatar Overview This task is designed to get students in English courses to think about how an engaging narrative is structured and created by writing…
Jessica McCaughey, The George Washington University Overview One student follows planetariums on Facebook. Another is an expert on the Twitter account of Donald Trump. A young man follows three feminist…
Hillary Weiss, Wayne State University Overview This lesson plan uses Stuart Selber’s multiliteracies—functional, critical, and rhetorical—as a framework to effectively analyze multiple texts, including internet, image-type memes. Analyzing and…
Melissa Vosen Callens, North Dakota State University Overview Inmy blended (hybrid) Critical Approaches to Popular Culture course, each weekstudents meet once face-to-face as well as “attend” one asynchronous onlineclass.…
Nicky Harlow, Open University This session has been developed as an introduction to writing autobiographical poetry web-conferencing software. The aims are to: - introduce students to the concept of using…
Kurt Temple and Rosemary Gaby, University of Tasmania This exercise equips students with the practical skills and knowledge required to transcribe, annotate and present an early printed text. Through completing…
Per Henningsgaard, Curtin University English teachers concerned about student motivation might consider seeking a more authentic audience for student writing. This classroom task offers one possible solution to identifying an…
Hannah Lavery and Lynda Prescott, The Open University In the 30-week, 60-credit module ‘Voices, Texts and Material Culture’ at the Open University, students are required to engage in online collaborative…
Dorian Hunter Davis, American University This exercise, an interactive alternative to the more traditional class blog, asks students to respond outside of class to an open-ended prompt their instructor posts…
