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Lytton Smith wrote a new blog post Existing Reflections in the group Metagogy: 6 years, 10 months ago

Writers Statements in creative writing classes: how we fit into the tradition, the processes, key elements of the field? Who am I as a writer and where am I going? What have you learned about yourself and your […]
Lytton Smith wrote a new blog post Current Self-Advisement Prompts in the group Metagogy: 6 years, 10 months ago

1. Looking ahead (before first advisement meeting)

Before your first meeting with your adviser in English, add some thoughts in the space below about your plans and aspirations. What are you hoping to […]
Lytton Smith wrote a new blog post Bird’s-eye view of Self-Reflection from English Majors, Spring 2016 in the group Metagogy: 6 years, 10 months ago

Image One: Looking Ahead

Image Two: Checking In

Image Three: Looking Back

(For all Wordles, the terms English and Major were removed to make other words more visible.)
Lytton Smith edited the blog post Reflecting on Self-Reflection – Wed 25th Oct. in the group Metagogy: 6 years, 10 months ago

This post provides the hub for the English Department’s discussion of the Self-Reflective assignment required of all majors. In attendance are [TK].

We will
– compile in-class activities that allow students to link course work to their Wiki page
– devise questions that link advising meetings to the self-reflective advisement criteria
-…[Read more]
admin edited the blog post Session Proposal: Library Partnership in the group Metagogy: 7 years, 5 months ago

This session proposal has been withdrawn. Alan Witt, Reference and Instruction Librarian at Milne Library proposes a session for the Metagogy Unconference focused on building a course or curriculum with a library partnership integrated throughout. Preplan either lessons or projects so that a library session or series of sessions can be easily…[Read more]
admin wrote a new blog post Creating Dynamic Slide Shows in PowerPoint and Keynote in the group Metagogy: 7 years, 6 months ago

Prof. Kyle Matthews (Languages and Literatures) proposes a session in which he’ll share some techniques for building dynamic and interesting PowerPoint/Keynote presentations, either for use in class or as […]
Emilye Crosby wrote a new blog post Teaching with the SNCC Digital Gateway in the group Metagogy: 7 years, 6 months ago

The SNCC Digital Gateway is a new–soft-launched in December 2016 and still being completed–website about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Civil Rights Movement organization that grew out of the […]
admin wrote a new blog post Session Proposal: Self-Directed or Self-Constructed Majors in the group Metagogy: 7 years, 6 months ago

Dean of Academic Planning and Advising Celia Easton proposes a session on self-directed or self-constructed majors. A choice at many other colleges and universities (including SUNY schools, e.g., Binghamton), […]
Lytton Smith edited the blog post Build Something Together: A Part of a Science+Humanities Curriculum in the group Metagogy: 7 years, 6 months ago

Lytton Smith, Asst. Prof. of English/Creative Writing, proposes a session aimed at creating a curricular component – be it a lesson plan, an assignment, a one-off lab – that integrates specific science and humanities methodologies and knowledge. We can both draw on existing expertise, such as the way GIS is used in English and Geology, among o…[Read more]
Lytton Smith edited the blog post Build Something Together Proposal: Breaking the Four Walls in the group Metagogy: 7 years, 6 months ago

Lytton Smith, Asst. Prof. of English/Creative Writing, proposes a session that would seek to bring together examples of practice from across Geneseo that involve not just “getting outside the classroom” but deliberately breaking the four walls, if you’ll excuse the pun, whether that involves engagement with the social lives of people, ecological e…[Read more]

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