I am interested in this faculty learning community to force myself out of my comfort zone by no longer relying on using textbooks in my classes. I’m hoping that by the end of January to have a gameplan in store that will require that I no longer give multiple choice exams and instead use a variety of materials to teach my classes, whether it’s assigning podcasts, TV show episodes, newspaper articles, youtube videos to make the conversations more entertaining and captivating to my students.
Question 3. For some odd reason, I’m now interested in 1950s pulp novels. I’m trying to catch up on these as a way to motivate myself to get into writing fiction.