This week, I finally had the chance to use an adapted version of an activity I first read about in Geri Lipschultz’s “Fishing in the Holy Waters” (College English 48.1 (Jan. 1986)), an article I mention briefly in my…
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Swimming and Teaching
I never came close to being an elite athlete. I never swam in a meet that required qualifying times. I occasionally scored points for my team—usually because the lanes weren’t full for distance or butterfly events. (What can I say?…
Sometimes Innovative Teaching Is Beside the Point
I had great plans for my tutorial this semester. I was going to have them use the class wiki to put together images and passages from assigned texts, using Tom Clark’s post on one of Katherine Mansfield’s poems as a…