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This is the "web log," blog, homepage, portal for Steven D. Krause, aka Steve, aka sitedad. I'm a professor teaching writing classes at Eastern Michigan University and my family and I live in Ypsilanti, Michigan. You can learn more than you want to learn about me by clicking on "about." You can contact me by sending email to skrause at emich dot edu.
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Category Archives: Scholarship
Week 5 of English Composition 1
Before news about Composition I, some MOOC reading round-up: As Nick Carbone pointed out on the WPA-L mailing list, it seems like journalists taking and reporting on MOOCs has become all the rage as of late. Just goes to show … Continue reading
Posted in MOOCs, Scholarship, Teaching, Writing
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An idea for a CCCCs panel: How about the teachers amongst us who have been MOOC students?
I might have an idea for a proposal for the annual Conference of College Composition and Communication, which will be happening in 2014 in Indianapolis March 19-22. The theme in the call for proposals (this is a PDF) is “Open | … Continue reading
Posted in MOOCs, Scholarship
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English Composition I Week 2 and 3
April is always the cruelest month in academia because it’s near (or, at EMU, is) the end of the semester, which means there are all kinds of last meetings, end of the school year celebrations and recognitions, planning for spring/summer … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, MOOCs, Scholarship, Writing
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ATTW & CCCCs in Vegas
Before writing this post, I looked through what I wrote last year about the CCCCs in St. Louis and in a lot of ways, this CCCCs in Las Vegas was remarkably similar to that CCCCs: my semester/year is/has been complicated, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, MOOCs, Scholarship
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MOOC and Pony Show
(And that blog title was brought to you by Derek who named my just completed trip the “MOOC and Pony Show.”) A while ago (maybe two months ago?), I was invited to give a talk about MOOCs at the American … Continue reading
Posted in MOOCs, Scholarship
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Presidential Footnote
The other day via the trackback notifications here, I learned that MLA President (or I guess now past President?) Michael Bérubé mentioned one of my previous blog post in his recent 2013 Presidential Address, though he doesn’t quote me per se. Hey, … Continue reading
A few miscellaneous comments on online teaching, what I learned about eCollege (again), and MOOCs
I’ve been pretty crazy-busy this semester because I took on too much and because there were things I could not refuse. So the blog has been pretty neglected lately, mostly because I’ve been thinking and writing about online stuff and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Computers, technology, etc., MOOCs, Scholarship, Teaching, Technology
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More on MOOCs, writing in November
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about MOOCs or anything else, mainly because I’ve been pretty swamped with teaching and other work-related things, far too busy to have stayed active in either of the Coursera courses I had signed … Continue reading
Posted in MOOCs, Scholarship, Teaching
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WIDE-EMU 2012: A Few Misc. Thoughts
WIDE-EMU 2012 (or is it WIDE-EMU 2?) happened Saturday at Michigan State and it all seemed to go off without a hitch, more or less. There might be more later, but I thought I’d write a down a few thoughts … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Friends, Fun, Scholarship, Travel
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17 more universities jump aboard the Coursera express
Because I have a Coursera account (which apparently makes me a “Courserian”), I received the email below this morning about seventeen more universities joining in with Coursera. You can read the whole thing, but to me, this is starting to … Continue reading
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