by Dr Davis on January 17, 2010
Got Medieval has a great post about textbooks and how they do or do not make a difference to the professor.
I didn’t read the article he is responding to, but I still got a lot out of the post.
Your prof has a budget of exactly no dollars to evaluate potential textbooks for your class. He’s completely at the mercy of whatever scraps the publishers will send him, whatever’s in the library, whatever he has left over from his own undergrad days, and whatever he can beg off a colleague who taught the class last term.
Exactly. I just found out I have a different book in my class than I expected. So I wrote the publisher and asked for a copy of the text. I hope I get one soon or I’ll be buying it myself.
by Dr Davis on January 17, 2010
8. Collection of autobiographical stories for the Latino/a literature course:
Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Questions, before: What sorts of stories are you expecting? Why? How will these stories differ from African-American stories or Asian-American or Anglo-American stories?
Questions, after: Did the stories meet or exceed your expectations? Did you find what you were expecting? If not, why do you think that is? If so, what does that say about the book? What story most touched your heart? Which story can you relate to the most? Why?
I like that this is a collection of the works of college students. So often our students feel marginalized. Yet here, voices of people just like them are in print.
