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I realized the other day that I now feel perfectly comfortable and confident whenever I teach an undergraduate class. Yet I still feel vaguely incompetent every time I teach a graduate class. The norm for graduate classes where I went 30 years ago was usually that students did a lot of reports and professors never lectured. One professor actually grilled students on the assigned readings--this really worked, but I never found that this technique worked for me, inveterate people-pleaser that I am.

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During the past couple of years, Nate Kreuter has been refining a visual rhetoric PowerPoint presentation for presentation in rhetoric and writing classrooms. Nate delivered this presentation to various classes at UT over the years, and he's now completed a copyright safe, Creative Commons version.

The original presentation included copyrighted images, and this made it difficult to distribute. The presentation is now available for download at Viz., and it's published under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

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Over the years, BYU's Sliva Rhetoricae has shown up in a number of my Google searches. The site has evolved a bit over time, and it seems to be much better organized these days. It also boils things down a bit (sometimes too much), but this is (I think) because it's meant to be a general introduction to rhetorical terms.

I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts on this site. Do you use it? Why or why not?

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This post is slightly personal, but after one of my former students' posted this story about online student-teacher relationships onto my facebook account, I started thinking about several things regarding being a graduate student educator, a female educator, a female educator who looks unfortunately younger than most of her students, and a college educator in general. So a brief trip down memory lane here, and then a bit about the article and facebook in general...

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• composition
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• rhetoric
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Opposing Views is a new website that seems like it would a great tool for teachers of rhetoric, speech, and composition. From the FAQ:

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• composition
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• reading

Since I'm in the midst of moving, I'm a little late on this. But Derek Mueller is hosting a "CCCarnival" for Karen Kopelson's article in the latest issue of CCC: "Sp(l)itting Images; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition."

I'm going to jump in to the discussion either today or tomorrow, but head over to earth wide moth for more details.

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Andrea Foster at the Chronicle's Wired Campus Blog notes that YouTube is making cheating easier. The video she points to shares how to cheat using a Coke bottle, and Foster notes that this particular strategy "works only if students can have beverages with them when they’re sitting for exams."

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