Tag: classroom

• Using Twitter in the Classroom to Facilitate Discussion

  Using Twitter to Enhance Discussion in the Composition Classroom I started with Twitter in the spring semester of 2012. I invited students to create accounts so that we could use them along with classroom discussion. We talked about privacy and potential problems with going public with writing, and I told the students that they might…

  William Torgerson

  July 30, 2012

  Torg Life

  classroom, college, digital literacy, discussion, English, Facebook, multitasking, NCTE, privacy, private, public, research, social media, St. John’s University, Twitter, writing

• What are you working on? Discussion in the Writing Classroom

  In the writing classrooms where I teach, we often sit in a circle and do a “quick share” to begin class where everyone offers a brief comment. Examples of what students might say include a golden line from a reading, a question for our fellow writers, or an observation about a project in progress they…

  William Torgerson

  July 26, 2012

  Torg Life

  A Writer Teaches Writing, basketball, classroom, college, discussion, Golden Line, practice, sports, student engagement, writing, writing groups

• Teaching Summer Composition: WordPress Blogs in the Writing/English Classroom

  If anyone has suggestions, I’d love to hear what you think about the following plan:  this summer, for the two sections of composition I’m teaching, I plan to start my own Prof. Torg WordPress blog and have each student writer create a blog of their own.  I’ll have a blog roll (or list of links/same…

  William Torgerson

  May 20, 2010

  teaching

  audience, blog, Bud Smith, classroom, composition, conversation, education, English, IN DEPTH, Michael McCallister, NING, structure, teaching, text, WordPress, writing