Today I’m going to go over the basics of Zoom for those Marymount University faculty who are interested in or curious about using it for online teaching. I’m going to try not to talk too much, but I do want to walk you through the features, settings, and options before we try a group meeting. …
Wikid Wikipedia: Teaching Toolbox 2019
This year at our Teaching Toolbox, I'll be leading a breakout session on using Wikipedia in the classroom, and hosting a lunch discussion on writing across the curriculum. Breakout Session: Wikipedia in the Classroom The goal with the Wikipedia in the Classroom session is both to debunk some myths about Wikipedia and introduce some more …
Timelines in the Classroom: Teaching Toolbox 2018
Do you have students work with timelines in class? Do you teach surveys, or long texts that have substantial narrative components unfolding over time? Have you used Northwestern University's Knight Lab's Timeline JS? I am developing an assignment that uses Timeline JS to recreate a novel with enriched digital resources. TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone …
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Teaching Anne Bradstreet through deformance
This evening in EN340 is the first class of full-on literary analysis, and we are reading several of Anne Bradstreet's poems. I love starting with Bradstreet in this class because we're discussing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing as a political and self-conscious act that is in some ways always about its status as "women's writing." So …
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Demo Timeline: Evelina
Have you used Timeline JS to recreate a novel with enriched digital resources? I am testing what this might look like in an epistolary context, using Frances Burney's Evelina. By sharing the google sheet on which the timeline is based, students could be assigned letters or chapters to add--some things I've discovered so far are that you …
Major Women Writers: London, Chawton, Bath
Next week my upper-division writing intensive literature class on women writers before Austen is going to the UK for an extended Spring Break field trip. We'll be spending the first few days in London, with a day trip to Strawberry Hill (I know, I know... I just couldn't help myself!); then we're off to Chawton; …
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@AustenSays twitter bot
I "made" my first bot, with @zachwhalen's google sheets script! @AustenSays — Tonya Howe (@howet) April 7, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js With the help of Zach Whalen's extraordinarily clear instructions, I set up my first twitter bot, @austensays, which tweets out a single sentence (provided it's 140 or fewer characters) from Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park. I was …
Mary Toft Lives
Our final show just wrapped! This summer, I've been working with the amazingly talented Jon Gann to produce a Capital Fringe 2016 show on the famous "Rabbit Woman of Godalming," who gave birth to a series of rabbits--in parts--over the course of a few months in 1726. It was a song cycle, each song in …
Learning over Lunch: Use Microsoft Word Like a Pro
This afternoon, I'm doing a brown-bag workshop for students at Marymount about using Microsoft Word more effectively, sponsored by the First Year Experience office. I will be going over how to use spell/grammar/style check advanced features, how to use find/replace for revision, formatting details that always stump people, and differences between full/simplified Word and google …
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Aphra Behn Society 2015: Wikipedia Workshop
I love going to (to me) new conferences--not only do I get to learn about exciting work in the field, but I also get to meet new people and, ideally, expand my collection of "regularly-attended." What strikes me most about the Aphra Behn Society is its collegiality, its openness to and mentorship of graduate student …
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