The Virtual Instructor Handbook

Reading Strategies

• Textbook Reading Strategies

Sample Writing Assignments

• One Minute Rhetorical Analysis
• Literacy Narrative
• Multi-genre Writing
• Take a Position: Exploring Ideologies
• Writing in the Workplace Memo

Sample Reading Assignments

• Textbook Reading Strategies Application
• Vocabulary Journal - Janet Alexander
• Musical Intertextuality Strategies

Sample Visual Literacy Assignments

• Reading Images - Karen Randolph
  

Grammar/Sentence-level Assignments

• Grammar Journal

Working with Sources

• Source Evaluation Exercise
• Infotrac Search Exercise
• Works Cited Exercise

Working with New Media

• COS - Jing Session

Technology reviews from the Spring 2009 ED392x class:

• Blogger - Blogging Tool
• Delicious - Social Bookmarking
• Flickr - Photo sharing site
• Ning - Social Networking Site
• Wiki - Wetpaint

First Day Activities

• First Day Find – Karen Randolph

Exploring Diversity in the Classroom

• I Am Assignment - Charissa Urbano
  
• http://www.delta.edu/diversity

 Exploring the Environment and Sustainability in the Classroom

• Sustainability at Delta College
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
• The Earth Charter
• The Land Ethic - Aldo Leopold

Provocative Essays and Articles

• Alfie Kohn, "From Degrading to De-grading" 
• Garrett Hardin, "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor"