Sponsors of Literacy Crowdsourced Annotation

Follow the link to get to our Padlet space, where we’ll work together to annotate excerpts from Deborah Brandt’s, “Sponsors of Literacy.” Padlet, essentially, is an electronic bulletin board with unlimited “wall-space” for “sticky notes.”  What I like about Padlet is the ability to collaborate with others.  I also like that I can put any kind Read More …

Read Faster and Understand More

Many first year writing students ask me how they can read faster and comprehend more. For some of these students, the problem is that they’re subvocalizing words, and using valuable brain bandwidth for decoding words that would be better spent making meaning and meaningful connections to the ideas in the text.  Here’s SpeedReadingLounge.com’s Mark Ways’s guide Read More …

Writing Contest

Here’s a great opportunity to exercise your creative writing chops and maybe win a prize! The Maine Women Writers Collection invites students, staff and faculty of the UNE community to respond to “A Gateless Garden” exhibit at the Ketchum Library Art Gallery this fall. Deadline for entries: November 1, 2016 How to participate: Visit “A Gateless Garden” in Read More …