#tools4teach
As my previous posts have indicated, February has been a busy month. Thankfully, I did get a chance to put committee work on the back-burner and make it to the Tools for Teaching Northwest Regional Showcase at UW-Eau Claire this past Friday. Looking at the schedule, nearly all of the presenters had the entire hour [...]
stress relievers
Amidst all of the stress I just mentioned, these videos have brought me down off the email ledge & made me smile this week: I’ve been a MIKA fan since 2007 and cannot wait for his new album! Here’s another favorite so you can actually see him: Oh, and very appropriate for this post, a [...]
spring semester stress
When the emails started taking over my life 2 weeks before the Spring semester started, I knew this one was going to be a doozy. I’m teaching 2 online sections of ENGL 102, 2 sections of ENGL 371 [a rhetoric course to the Tech Comm majors], and 1 online graduate course in Rhetorical Theory, also [...]
lmfao
I know the Superbowl was nearly a week ago, but after much consideration and consulting of the AdBlitz channel on YouTube, I can now announce my favorite commercial to be… I think it’s the “wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah” that gets me! Also, is that Bebe Neuwirth voicing the brown M&M? My other LMFAO-related [...]
pathos, nostalgia, and don draper
My latest post on the Rhetorical Theory Course Blog: You will hear more about Aristotle’s appeals in future chapters, but if you notice I’ve uploaded a document in D2L that outlines the three nicely. Regarding pathos, or the appeal to our emotions, it states, Language choice affects the audience’s emotional response, and emotional appeal can [...]
Is Blogging Dead?
Cross-posted on the Rhetorical Theory Course Blog I started to leave a comment to respond to the final statement in Tim’s post, “Blogs have really moved beyond the mindless posts by vain teenagers, and maybe we have Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace (is that even still active anymore?) to thank for that,” but then remembered that at [...]