Teaching Reflection: Unessays, Again!
Check out the unessay projects my students did in Advertising History, Culture & Critique.
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What We Learned in Critical Media Studies of Health & Medicine
My students learned a lot in our course on deconstructing health and reimagining health media and communication.
My Media & Pop Culture Students’ Top 9 Learnings
These are the top concepts and ideas Media & Pop Culture students learned this semester; what they’ll take with them into their media lives.
14 Things the Jane Fonda Workout Taught Me for Online Pandemic Teaching
Go at your own pace. Show real sweat. Count it down. Here’s what I’ve learned from Jane Fonda’s workouts for online pandemic teaching.
Tracking Our Media Diets in Intro to Media Studies
This semester, students merged theory and practice in a deeply self-reflexive way through Media Diet Journals, which they then represented visually.
Top 10 Things We Learned in Food Media, Pandemic Edition
I taught Food Media online during a pandemic, but we still learned (and ate) a lot.
Teaching Online: How to Be More Creative & Engaging
Six tips for how to teach in creative and engaging ways online.
For My Students: My First 10 “Bad” Instagram Posts
My students’ Instagram lives made me reflect on mine, my first posts, and who I want to be on the app.
Teaching the Unruly Unessay
My students and I tested out unessays this semester, an assignment I now highly recommend.
Teaching with Infographics
My students translated 1500-word essays into infographics. I share details for instructors interested to try a similar assignment.
On Teaching “Persuasive Influences in America” for the First Time
I reflect on what my students and I read, wrote, and learned in a course on persuasion in the U.S.
A Student Interview on Media Studies + Food Studies
I chatted with a first year TU student about researching and teaching in media studies and food studies.
Presenting My Students’ Final Project: Defining American Food
I’m pleased to share the restaurant reviews and interviews my Brown students wrote, working to define American food.
Asking “What is American food?” with My Students
In “Food in American Society and Culture,” we ask and work to answer the polemic, complex, and contradictory question, “How do we define American food and how does food define Americans?”
My Food Studies Students Designed Dietary Guidelines, Here’s What Happened
I wondered how students exposed to critical nutrition studies might view food advice differently and reimagine dietary guidelines. This is what happened.
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