Adrienne Jankens

"Good learners, like everyone else, are living, squirming, questioning, perceiving, fearing, loving, and languaging nervous systems, but they are good learners precisely because they believe and do certain things that less effective learners do not believe and do." -Postman and Weingartner (31)

Refelction 1

Engaging reflection post about working through two very different drafts of the About Me page.

January 31, 2014 · Leave a comment

Reflection 1

Originally posted on Sarah A.:
Usually when I’m faced with an About Me section on a social network, I will either use the default passage, insert a famous quote, or…

January 29, 2014 · Leave a comment

Reflection on “About Me” page

Originally posted on Reflection:
Reflection on ‘About Me’ Page In the middle of January 2014 I began a very enjoyable writing adventure, fueled by the passionate instruction of my English…

January 26, 2014 · Leave a comment

Reflection for Project 1

Originally posted on corneshajameswilliams:
Ms. Jankens course outcome of writing is “Write effectively for various rhetorical situations (considering elements such as genre, context, discourse community, claims, evidence, organization, style, rhetorical…

January 26, 2014 · Leave a comment

Reflection #1

Student insight on reflection as process–seems important!

January 24, 2014 · Leave a comment

Reflection 3

Originally posted on kristinvholtz:
Can you cite any class discussion moments as particularly influential for your writing? If so, what was your role in these class discussions? For example, were…

November 4, 2013 · Leave a comment

Reflection 5

Originally posted on English 1020:
Something that I find very useful to find inspiration for writing is looking at other students’ blogs. Often, I won’t have an idea of where to…

October 30, 2013 · Leave a comment

Reflecting on How We Talk About Transfer

1020 cohort talking about transfer.

October 28, 2013 · Leave a comment

TED talk on collaboration

One of my students found this video and posted it re: our work on collaboration:

October 28, 2013 · Leave a comment

Reading Response 6

Originally posted on The Cooler themes are expensive:
The Peck, Flower and Higgins text discusses how important community literacy is and how it helps the community. Through the story of…

October 24, 2013 · Leave a comment