Teaching Examples: Digital Pedagogy (2016)

April 2016

This portfolio demonstrates my use of technical communications skills to apply digital technologies to the classroom. For example, my Microsoft Word video tutorial showcases my organizational and oral presentation skills delivered through Jing Screencast videos that are easily accessible to my students.

I also have used WordPress to create custom course blogs (see example 1B and 1C below), demonstrating my ability to design an online interactive social environment for students to share their ideas. These blogs are effective for delivering content and assignments to students, and some of my assignments demonstrate innovation by asking ESL students to share about the use of language and rhetoric in their native cultures.

Teaching Examples (Mainly for ESL 015, but also for English 015)

ESL 015 introduces degree-seeking international students to the conventions of academic writing at US universities. Students learn how to organize their ideas, conduct basic library research, support their claims with appropriate forms of evidence, and prepare citations for material that is summarized, paraphrased, and/or quoted.

English 015 introduces first year students at Penn State to basic writing and research skills from the perspective of rhetorical awareness, which means that students learn how to analyze their audiences, purposes for writing, and the available means/ resources in any given communicative situation.

  1. Pedagogical Innovation with Technology
    1. Annotated lesson plan for computer-assisted group writing activity and PowerPoint with instructions (ESL 015)
    2. Course blog for ESL 015, Spring 2015
    3. Course blog for ESL 015, Fall 2014
    4. Sample of successful sample student-to-student communication on the course blog
  2. Multimedia File: video tutorial on formatting assignments using Microsoft Word 2013
  3.  Course Web Space (Angel CMS)
  4. List of links provided for students learning APA style
  5. Course Presentations
    1. Sample PowerPoint on Research (discipline specific links at end of PowerPoint).
    2. Sample PowerPoint on Grammar (Definite_and_Indefinite Articles)
    3. PowerPoint on writing formal definitions
  6. Sample email to students and sample conference signup sheet (Google Spreadsheet)

Misc. Technical Communication

 

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