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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

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I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! As an English major, there is maybe no reason that I should retain information on the taxonomy of living things or plate tectonics. It started with a yawn. I saw it contagiously meander through the classroom.

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! As an English major, there is maybe no reason that I should retain information on the taxonomy of living things or plate tectonics. It started with a yawn. I saw it contagiously meander through the classroom.

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

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Leslie Bruce earned her PhD in English from USC and her BS in Zoology from CSU Long Beach. She’s taught composition and literature in California State University, Fullerton’s Department of English since 2007. GPT Detectors Are Biased against Non-Native English Writers.” Wu, and James Zou. Patterns 4 (7): 100779. Accessed Jan.

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

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Leslie Bruce earned her PhD in English from USC and her BS in Zoology from CSU Long Beach. She’s taught composition and literature in California State University, Fullerton’s Department of English since 2007. GPT Detectors Are Biased against Non-Native English Writers.” Wu, and James Zou. Patterns 4 (7): 100779. Accessed Jan.

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Five-Minute Starts: Fifteen Ideas to Ignite Your Class

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Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. Marie McQuade is a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and program lead for the BA Childhood Practice. Padlet is a good digital tool. References Barbezat, D.P. and Bush, M.

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Five-Minute Starts: Fifteen Ideas to Ignite Your Class

Faculty Focus

Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. Marie McQuade is a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and program lead for the BA Childhood Practice. Padlet is a good digital tool. References Barbezat, D.P. and Bush, M.

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How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education

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No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation. Before the pandemic, like many of my peers, I had been a great believer of the lecture hall, with its sense of tradition and history.

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