Pedagogy
Posts about teaching and pedagogy in higher education.
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Visualizing Mythology: Using Universal Design for Learning to Teach Greek Mythology
By incorporating the idea of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), we encouraged students to engage with various methods of organizing information including Cornell notes, annotating text, and sketchnoting. Continue reading
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A Note About Note Taking
Finally got around to replacing my Apple iPencil and what better way to try it out than creating a sketch note– about note taking? This is my attempt to show how visual note taking can be combined with the Cornell Note system. To learn more about sketch notes, try Sketchnote Army by Mark Rohde, Mauro Toselli,… Continue reading
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More About Cornell Notes
I’ve been doing some updates and expansions of my note-taking notes and am sharing my Cornell notes here for anyone who would like to use them. All are CC-BY. Download links for PDF versions are listed at the bottom of this post. Download Quick Guide to Cornell Notes PDF Jan. 2018 Download Cornell Notes: A… Continue reading
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Cornell Notes: A quick and dirty guide
Wow, who would have thought a tweet about Cornell Notes would prove so popular? Making a Cornell Note guide. 📝 @giuliaforsythe @darrinsunstrum what do you think? pic.twitter.com/robscRXfBC — Alison Innes (@InnesAlison) October 1, 2017 But since it is now my most popular tweet ever, I’m making my guide available for download and use with a… Continue reading
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Teaching students how to student
There’s an expression about how the shoemaker’s children have no shoes. Well, the social media consultant is terrible at her own social media! I’ve clearly fallen behind in my New Year’s resolution of a blog post a month. I thought I might catch up when I had a month off work this summer, but somehow… Continue reading
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Seminar Strategies 1: Exploring heroics by writing thesis statements
I mentioned when I was hosting @wethehumanities on Twitter that I have a number of stock seminar (class) activities that I pull out from time to time, and, as requested, I plan to write about some of them here on the blog. This is, hopefully, the first in an occasional series! Continue reading
About Me
-PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities researching podcasting and social media under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Mauro at Brock University
-Strategic Initiatives and Outreach Officer with the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University
-Host and producer of Foreword
-Cohost and producer of MythTake
-MA in Classics from Brock University (2013)
-BA from McMaster University (2009)
-BA from Glendon College, York University (2003)
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