Monthly Archives: December 2014

Hi all,

I’ve made a website/digital teaching portfolio here.  It’s shamelessly modeled on Brian Croxall’s site, and I’m trying to get started with blogging on the main page.

Blogging on an academic site makes me feel more academically “naked” than I’d like to feel.  The culture of peer review in academic publishing, frustrating as it is, brings some comfort of professional approval if you can get through it, and I’ve always been more reluctant to throw my undercooked thoughts onto a public forum.  But I’m now inspired to try, and to gradually make them more “cooked.”

Yet blogging has also made me realize that I often have interesting thoughts that I keep to myself.

For the final project I’ve been working to create a course website: https://foodsystems2foodsovereignty.wordpress.com

Right now the content is still missing, and I’m not satisfied yet with the layout.  My main concern was to create an online space to support a variety of assignments.  Some of this functionality you will not be able to see, but the site is linked to wikispaces.  Through this, I can divide students into groups and provide them with pages to work on a debate assignment.  This way each team can work together, but the other teams can’t see their work.  So far it seems to work, but does require students to register to both sites in order to gain full functionality.  I’m wondering if this can be simplified.  I am also using the wikispaces links to set up a course dictionary for the students (like a wiki page).  The word press site will be used to contain the syllabus, announcements, a course blog, and a course photo blog.  I’m still trying to figure out a way to simplify these different functions and perhaps will have one site by the time I teach this course.