Two years ago, I was sitting in the back of four-seater tuk-tuk (which is basically a two-wheeled cart pulled behind a moped) in Cambodia with three of my online graduate students. If ever there was a time for me to have an ah-hah! pedagogy moment, that was it. I was
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Okay, so I just got done teaching my first-ever college course on how to make money from a blog (it was a short, 4-week May Term course). Let’s get real, though: I’m not the shining example of blogger guru-ness. I’ve learned a few things over the years (mostly what not
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I’ve done similar punctuation infographics in the past (check out The 15 Punctuation Marks, the 69 Rules for Using Punctuation, and the Periodic Table of Punctuation), but I wondered how the many rules of punctuation would look if broken down into a treemap. So here it is! Wait…but’s what’s a
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A couple weeks ago, I developed a revised infographic, “Can I Use That Picture?,” flowchart that guides you through the process of using images legally and ethically. Too often, I get questions that go something like this: “Wait, I can’t use an image I found on Google for a PowerPoint
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If you’re writing any kind of paper—essay, report, legal document, proposal, etc.—and you reference ideas that are not original to you, you need to be citing your sources. Citing sources gives credit to the people who developed original ideas and research. Citing sources will keep you from plagiarizing and help
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Somewhere every June, in the far dark corners of the earth, a unique gathering happens: over 1,000 high school and college English teachers from across the United States meet to score AP English exams. It’s a mysterious part of my career that has consumed nine days of my life every
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