Writing Diagnostic Assessment Project
As most readers of CAC.OPHONY already know, we are in the process of delving into the Writing Diagnostic data that BLSCI has been collecting over the past ten years. My work, as a first-year Writing...
View ArticleWriting Diagnostic Assessment: Preliminary Research Questions
After meeting with the Associate Provost and faculty representatives of the Zicklin School of Business and the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, we have now settled on some initial research...
View ArticleFun with PowerPoint in the Classroom
I know PowerPoint is not the most popular kid on the block these days. Without sounding too much like a conservative talking about gun control, I have to confess that I’m a firm believer that...
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Writing Diagnostic Assessment: Some Preliminary Findings
As many of you know, last month BLSCI applied for external funding from an organization that recognizes exceptional faculty development programs focussed on enhancing undergraduate teaching and...
View ArticleConnected
As part of their Mobile Learning initiative, Abilene Christian University has begun a new program that involves giving iPhones to incoming freshman. With the iPhones and the software they’ve designed,...
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Institutional Growth at The Schwartz Institute: 1997-2007
In BLSCI’s application for the TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award, we made use of the writing diagnostic assessment data to demonstrate the many ways the Institute has grown over the past 10 years. As Figure 1...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Online Reading?
I just read an interesting article by Mark Bauerlein in The Chronicle about how students’ approaches to reading and interacting with information online seem to be hindering their ability to read and...
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I’m Not Lovin’ It.
I’m starting to get a little bit worried about the rash of strangely written and borderline grammatically incorrect advertising slogans in the media. This is especially true of fast food...
View ArticleNew Audience = Changed Message?
Fresh off of the Institutes’s conversation with Bernard L. Schwartz and planning for the next Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction, I have found myself to be highly...
View ArticleNew Evidence on the Effectiveness of e-Interventions
The American Psychological Association’s Science Directorate has just published an article by Marguerita Lightfoot on the potential of electronic communication in the context of psychological...
View ArticleSocial Networking: Isn’t it all just way too much?
In his recent Wired commentary on the Burden of Twitter, Steven Levy highlights a few of the many reasons why I have avoided getting involved in Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking forums....
View ArticleYouTube Showcases Debate Over International Naval Incident
I am always amazed at the many ways YouTube continues to evolve and find new relevance on the world stage. It now finds itself hosting evidence (or propaganda, depending on who you ask) of a...
View Article“Questions about silent-language acquisition in a digital environment”
For those of you who can’t resist speculating on the (in)communicative futures of the facebook generation, Mark Bauerlein has an interesting opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal: Why Gen-Y Johnny...
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