Conversations
"After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase [our] faith [in] the holy Gospel." --Brigham Young
For most of my career, I have kept contact with many students. Early in my teaching, I assigned students to write a weekly letter to me discussing what they were learning or concerns about the course, and then I would respond.
The same pattern of their writing to me and my writing to them continues through I-Learn (or Brain Honey), mostly through discussion boards. And of course, I'm blessed with former students who continue to write to me about their lives and families. In response to these writings, I have created two professional blogs where I take some of my responses, adapt them to general audiences, and post them online. The subjects of my two blogs are disciple leadership and rhetorical studies. |
disciple-leadership
BYU-Idaho disciple-leadership model focuses on the three principal aspects of students' education at this unique university. The three areas include inspired learning and teaching, leadership development, and disciple preparation. In my Business 499B Business Research and Publishing class, students maintain an authentic leadership journal in which they write weekly entries on leadership qualities they are developing in their lives. I write weekly response to them, and many of my responses have evolved into blog entries.
Also as a significant part of this blog include adapted letters I continue to write to students, particularly one student as he was deployed as a Marine in Afghanistan. Once in the blog, click on the home link to access entries. |
Agora: Teaching Rhetoric and Ethics
I have been interested in rhetorical studies for nearly three decades, mostly because of my interest in and involvement with CCCCs. Over the years, I have continued to rad current and classical rhetorical scholarship and incorporate the readings into my English 450 Rhetorical Studies class and into my English 495 Senior Writing and Critical Thinking Seminar. I've decided to start a teaching rhetoric and ethical criticism blog where I can record and respond to the articles, critics, and rhetoricians I read with the intention to share with my students. I wish I had done this years ago.
Once in the blog, click on the home link to access entries. |