How I like to be assessed is somewhat different from how I prefer to assess my students. I love taking multiple-choice tests. My very first one was the GRE test I took to enter a graduate program at a US university. It felt like a fun puzzle in comparison to the anxiety-causing oral exams that […]
Week 2
The Zoom Gaze by Autumm Caines reminded me of my own anxieties during the spring semester of 2020 when I first started to teach my classes on Google Meet. Teaching at an institution where the majority of students come from families much wealthier than mine, I was reluctant to show them my shabby furniture and […]
Week 1 Thoughts
Both Bonnie Stewart’s “In Praise of Living in Public” and Laura Pasquini’s “Why Academics Need a Digital Persona?” encourage academics to establish a visible presence online while also acknowledging the problems they may encounter. Stewart shares her difficulties as a personal blogger to present her distant and decontextualized audience her amalgamated “face” that blends the […]
